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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any time you have 3-4 classes together with a smaller cohort of kids people start to call it a “school within a school.”  But at these big HSs, a “school within a school” is not necessarily a bad thing.  It’s impossible to really know 400 classmates.  This is why a lot of big HSs have “academies” - to try to create a smaller group with some interests in common so kids don’t get lost in a huge school. [/quote]

OP again - thanks for explaining this. [/quote]

BCC parent here.  IB at BCC does not at all have the feel of an academy or school within a school.  No one here thinks of it as school within a school - that is way too non-inclusive for the BCC environment, both parents and students. IB is open at BCC, which means any student can sign up for one IB class or the whole program. My DC did a mix of IB and AP because full IB has pretty limited choices.  You do not go to three or 4 classes with the same kids. Everyone is taking different maths, electives and different languages. There are 100 kids in the program isually, so the odds of being in the same 3-4 classes with more than a couple kids is slim.

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