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[quote=Anonymous]It really depends. At some schools in the US, MYP is just an appendage to the normal state guidelines & it’s no big deal - the teachers just have to reclassify and modify some of the assignments. But if it is implemented fully, it can be really interesting in the beginning, but it does become really tough by the end.

We are overseas, where a lot of our local privates use IB. My DS is the equivalent of a sophomore in the US system, that is the last year of IB MYP. For him, it is a really tough year. The personal project requires not only making a deeply-researched project in & of itself, but also a formal report that is limited to 3000 words, plus 10 pages of appendices, full citations and all. His journal for it is 75 pages long.  This is on top of an avalanche of e-portfolio submissions for the ‘soft’ classes (PE, design, and two different foreign languages) due at the end of this term. Then he will begin prep for final sit-down exams in English, Humanities, Physics, Chemistry & Maths - all slated over two weeks in May. Plus community service.

Watching his work load this year has left me horrified. It is so much more work than I did over the course of my entire 4 years of HS in the US, back when I was a kid. I wish I’d had access to a softer program for him, tbh.[/quote]

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