| Naturally, a school is going to encounter problems when introducing any new curriculum for the first time. I believe that my school is now in its 28th year of offering the IB Diploma Program, and I've consistently noticed that there's a substantial difference between the students enrolled in the IB program, taking both AP and IB classes, and just students taking AP classes. The majority of our National Merit Finalists are IB students. The majority of the top 10% of our class are IB students. Forgetting the statistics, the IB students simply seem more focused, more diverse, and less...dumb, to put it bluntly. |