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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that there's a meaningful difference between offering the IB program to all MCPS students and requiring the IB program of all MCPS students. Don't you? Just like MCPS offers AP classes to all MCPS students but does not require all MCPS students to take AP classes.[/quote]

Actually, I do agree.  Everyone should lobby to get more funds to public schools so that IB can be offered to every student.  IB remains more expensive than AP, because of the cost and time involved in getting the school accredited, the teachers trained and the other IB rubrics adhered to.  The IB organization has many safeguards in place to ensure that strict quality control is adhered to in the school. [/quote]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink!! If your kid is doing poorly, it's not b/c lack of IB!!  :roll: [/quote]

Who said that anybody's kid is doing poorly? My own kid is doing fine. Notwithstanding how my kid is doing, it is a fact that there are lots of kids in MCPS (including mine) who do not have the option of doing IB.[/quote]

They should have the option, but there is also a good chance that if it's not for a magnet program (drawing able students from multiple schools),  no school would have had enough students finishing the program, and in the end, no IB program to anyone. [/quote]

+ 1. I had not thought of the IB magnet program as serving this purpose.  It is true that they serve the needs of a sizeable number of students from MCPS schools and this allows the RMIB program to actually create a quality blue print for other MCPS schools to follow that want to bring IB in their school.

My relative is an IB teacher in Seneca Valley HS. She laments the lack of enough students that want to do the full IB diploma program.  Most of the times even smart kids who are used to MCPS easy A's do not have the confidence to compete internationally with other IB students.  As I mentioned before that there is no MCPS grade inflation when your paper is being graded in Switzerland or England.

Before we start offering IB to every high school maybe we should concentrate in bringing the IB to the elementary schools (called Primary Year Program - PYP) and middle schools (called Middle Year Program - MYP) - at the very least in the feeder schools of IB high schools.

Having IB in your school does not preclude you from taking AP courses or exams.  Since IB diploma exams only happen in 11th and 12th grade, most RMIB students also take AP courses in 9th and 10th grades. Being an IB student does not preclude you from taking AP exams.  In 11th and 12th grade, these IB students just study for their IB exam and usually show up to take AP exams in the same subject (as their IB exam) without any prep.  The reason is that the AP exam looks incredibly easy after the IB exam. [/quote]

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