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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let them know which bathroom to go buy weed? (I joke! Too soon?)

Ha! I have a kid at RMIB. Don’t worry, the kids learn real quick about the weed at RM.

I hear it’s the bathroom in the English hallway. I don’t know why they can’t do something about this. (Fwiw, my kid says some f the smokers are IB kids but it’s not like all the Kids are doing it. I think it’s a minority of kids.)

I have an RMIB senior kid. DC just told me that some IB kids do vape. I was a bit surprised, but I guess I shouldn't be. DC seemed to shrug the whole vaping in the bathrooms off. DC said if you don't make a big deal of it, those vaping kids don't bother you.

If you want less stressful, you'll need to cut back on some e.c.s, and the commute time, if there is one. Drive your kid to school if you can. Some of those bus rides are brutal.

But, now that college admissions is coming in, I do see that your e.c.s and giving back to the community in many ways are more important than your grades and stats.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let them know which bathroom to go buy weed? (I joke! Too soon?)

Ha! I have a kid at RMIB. Don’t worry, the kids learn real quick about the weed at RM.

I hear it’s the bathroom in the English hallway. I don’t know why they can’t do something about this. (Fwiw, my kid says some f the smokers are IB kids but it’s not like all the Kids are doing it. I think it’s a minority of kids.)

Anonymous wrote:Let them know which bathroom to go buy weed? (I joke! Too soon?)

Ha! I have a kid at RMIB. Don’t worry, the kids learn real quick about the weed at RM.

My kid is in IB but in 10th grade. The point of IB is to give them that rigorous college-level experience. Your kid is gonna have to adjust or drop the program.

The benefit is if they can get the hang of it, college will much more of a breeze for them, compared to their peers, who'll be dealing with that level of rigor later in life, with probably less room for error.

The key to IB is being organized, responsible and deadline-driven. If you procrastinate, it will pile up and overwhelm you. This is a choice. Your kid is gonna have to make the right ones.

Let them know which bathroom to go buy weed? (I joke! Too soon?)

I learned a lot through the stress. Didn’t get enough sleep but made college a breeze in comparison. Doing fewer extracurriculars would help. In 11/12 I formed study groups with my classmates so each person would be in charge of summarizing X from the history readings. Otherwise it would’ve been impossible.

There is a lot for 11th grade. And I think part of the struggle is that there are a lot of different kinds of assignments and metrics — so the usual McPS stuff layered onto the IB stuff and then the AP stuff and it often takes work just figuring out what is required by the assignment.

Mine is more stressed out than I’d like but is also involved in a few different extracurriculars that are time consuming. I don’t think she wastes much time on social media but I guess I don’t really know. She’s upstairs doing homework now. (She maybe does social stuff 2-3 times a month.). I think if your kid is lighter on extracurriculars it would probably be manageable.

What grade level? I have a 10th grader in the program, and it has not been stressful at all.

He has time for ECs, a sport, music lessons, etc.

But we've heard that 11th and 12th grade are extremely demanding.

Anonymous wrote:Only if your kid is off phone and off internet social media.

+1DC spend a lot more time on the phone than school work, of course it becomes stressful waiting till last minute to do work

Stressful due to the peers, they see others work so hard, doing so much and seems to be good at everything

Only if your kid is off phone and off internet social media.

Do most students have so much homework because they are used to being the top students and working hard at everything and taking the hardest classes? Anyone's child have not too hard of a time at RMIB? Is there a way to get the well rounded and rigorous experience while working hard but not brutally hard?