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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids go to an IB high school.  Our high school also has a rigorous selection of DE (dual enrollment) courses.  We have a very small group that does the full IB diploma and a group that does IB CP (IB Career Program.)    The other college bound students do a mix of IB and DE courses.  My DS, who did the full diploma, said the only kids in his math and IB Spanish 2 classes were the diploma kids.  But his English, History and Science courses had non diploma students.  His English class had the most students.  IB is known for a rigorous writing program so it makes sense that the college bound students would elect to take IB English and not DE English.  But the students who are going to pursue a STEM career tend to take the DE Math classes.

[b]TOK (Theory of Knowledge) will have an after school option.  In order to do the diploma, there aren't enough periods in the day to take all the required courses plus a non-IB elective like band or chorus.[/b]

At AP schools, students take US Government (AP Govt) in 11th or 12th grade.  The IB diploma does not include US Government in their social studies curriculum, which is a VA state requirement.  IB students need to take the government requirement in 10th grade.[/quote]

How many periods are there in a day? I did the MCPS IB Diploma Programme magnet; graduated a little over a decade ago. We had seven periods a day, had TOK during the school day, and I still had room to be in band all four years. [/quote]

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