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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Above is total BS. No need whatsoever for students to study in IB elementary school, or in middle school for that matter, to ace IB work in high school. The country with the best IB results, and the most IB Diplomas per capita, is Hong Kong. Yet few Hong Kong public elementary and middle schools offer IB curriculum. What they do offer are strong academics and extensive middle school tracking across the board. I know this because I taught at an IB World HS in Hong Kong at one point. This school had no feeder school meaning that few of our students did IB work before HS. Even so, IB scores in the 40s weren’t unusual at our school! [/quote] What the PP above fails to say is that the academic culture in HK is toxic. There is a whole other school in Asia and especially in HK called cram schools. So the kids go to school all day then go to the cram school at night. It is totally crazy. All families who can afford to do it and the rat race is never ending. Even families who can’t afford it will scrimp and save and put all their savings to have their kids in cram schools. This data is very old, years ago but last time I looked it was 75% of kids go to cram schools. Only the poor don’t who can’t afford it. What PP above also fails to say is that her school is likely taught in English and the kids have been in English taught schools, so immersion in the language, way before coming to her school. Probably their whole life. The academic pressure to do well and expectations is off the roof in HK. It affects the kids self esteem, mental health, etc…HK has a silent epidemic of student suicides. It is among the highest in the developed world. I would never live in HK and raise a kid there. Childhood is fleeting and not worth giving it up and the high cost to the rat race of doing well. What is even more sad is that unless you come from a wealthy family, these kids later still can’t afford to support themselves independently due to the high COL and high housing cost to buy a place. [/quote] Pretty sure the school they’re talking about is HKIS, and while the culture there is stressful it’s mostly rich expats so it’s not cram school stressful. [/quote] I don’t think so because HKIS is AP in high school, not IB. BTW HKIS is preschool to 12th with a tuition of $112k to $130k per semester so you are looking at $224k to $260k a year. It is for the ultra wealthy. [/quote]
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