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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The irony is that the same folks who'd be concerned about a "Race to Nowhere" if a student were taking 10 AP courses gladly sign their kids up for IB diploma programs.  Marketing it as teaching students "how to think" and creating "global citizens" plays well with certain parents, and the IBO (which has its North American headquarters in the former Fannie Mae building in DC) milks that for all it's worth.

We pulled our kid from an IB school after seeing how the school tended to separate kids into IB diploma and non-IB diploma buckets.  We found our AP school to be a more welcoming environment; most of the kids took a number of AP courses, and kids weren't so quickly put in buckets by school administrators looking to tout the number of the school's IB diploma candidates.
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At RMHS, RMIB students take AP classes, as well. And non IB magnet students can take IB classes.  So, there is some mixing.

RM is our home school, and one DC went through the IB magnet program and the other didn't, but this DC also took some IB classes.

IMO, the diploma doesn't mean much for US colleges.  Even so, my DC who went through that program said it was a good experience.  They were stronger in STEM than in ELA, so going through this program really helped them become a better writer.

DC told me that RMS English 9 was the hardest class for a lot of the IB kids because it was the first time these straight A high achieving students were really challenged in writing.  Many got Cs on their first essay.  That is how rigorous the program is.

It's a ton of writing, so don't do it if your kid isn't willing to put in the effort.  There are other paths:  AP and dual enrollment.[/quote]

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