Wicquor Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 o: seriously?I could have sworn they said 70 IB students during that workshop/meeting thing in December and, like, 10 people have dropped out since, lolMaybe I misheard . Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Bird Lockheed Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 (edited) Mine is totally different. As far as I see IB students ( me and my only friend= IB 1 and my 5 seniors ) usually hang out with A levels or IGCSE. If you look at our group you cannot make out any difference between IB or A s students. Edited April 26, 2013 by akash jishnu Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateyG Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 At my school we've got only 5 I.B students.Get along or get screwed over. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBisfunjustkidding Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 (edited) Yes it is that way with our IB1 and IB2 students, mostly it's because those are the people we know the most/see the most. But there are cliques inside of the "IB clique" too. Edited April 27, 2013 by IBisfunjustkidding Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePeach♥ Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 (edited) There are no non-IBers at my school. Since we go through the same program, we manage to pull through difficult situations by helping each other out and complaining to one another... haha so I guess we do hang out more as a cohort compared to the students who don't do the IB. However that doesn't stop the fact that we hang out in separate groups. We don't all have to get along. We're more awkward around others, and in fact, haven't even talked to some before since our subjects don't match.But I understand how the non-IB students and the IB students to not hang around as much, because I think for a bond to form, you kinda have to go through similar situations; that's what makes IB students stand together. Edited April 27, 2013 by IcePeach♥ 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iman Maisara Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 Not really, in my school, everyone tends to get along with each other although of course, there are cliques which is normal in my opinion as this happens in every school. The cliques in my school sometimes prefer to hang within themselves and sometimes everyone gets together. It's really the fact on whether you socialise or not. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBfreakingout! Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 This year our school has had the biggest year 11 co-hort of IB student, of nearly 100 students (they think that about 10-20 may drop out by the end of the year). I would say that we really do hang out more with the IB kids than the SACE (the other option) kids.However, there are plenty of people that hang out with friends they have had since the beginning of high school and as we share a homegroup, and can meet up at lunch etc, it still works. Only difference is that they dont share classes with us obviously.However, even in my friend circle, and in the IB group as you may call it, I have noticed that there are some particular students that I seem to be around more than others and this is solely due to the same classes we have. Only a few others, I get a chance to talk to at other times. It is like they aren't even there because a lot of weeks I don't even know if many of my friends have been to school or not because they arent in ANY of my classes and I have CAS stuff at lunch! T'is very sad indeed. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon_princess Posted June 1, 2013 Report Share Posted June 1, 2013 My school is full of cliquey kids! We have around 60 students and we have many groups within IB!! Most people are friends with each other and are friendly! And many IB kids hang out with other IB kids, however I am one of those people who prefers to hang out with non-IB kids, so I am slightly excluded within IB because of that. I am friends with the IB kids, but not all of them, and not as close as others! We have cliques, however we are still one big family! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Masterson Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 At my school it seems that there is a clear divide between the a-level students and the IB students. They do inter-mingle but it is rather rare and doesn't seem to be out of choice. I think that it is mainly because those that take the IB are international students and those that take a-levels tend not to be so there is that border/day pupil segregation which I really hate! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjy Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 At my school it seems that there is a clear divide between the a-level students and the IB students. They do inter-mingle but it is rather rare and doesn't seem to be out of choice. I think that it is mainly because those that take the IB are international students and those that take a-levels tend not to be so there is that border/day pupil segregation which I really hate!See my school was mainly boarding and it was mostly Brits who did IB, with some internationals doing it! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat_K Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 At my school there is most definitely a divide between the people on the national programme and those in the IB. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that the 'national siders' go to school in Swedish whereas we go to school in English, so outside of class most of the IB speak in English/Finnish whereas they're almost always speaking Swedish. There are kinda 'cliques' within the IB even though there are so few of us, but we all get on pretty well and stick together when things get difficult [At my old school it was better with the AP and IB programme since a lot of us had all gone to the same middle school – but then there was a clear divide between the anglophone and francophone section… So you can't really win ] Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhilash Singh Posted July 20, 2013 Report Share Posted July 20, 2013 The IB students don't really stick together and there aren't really any inclusive groups except the Romanians (basically the locals) and the Internationals and this happened in almost all of my schools where either you hung out with the internationals or the locals Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADRxo Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 In my school, it is almost the same exact thing. However, the students tend to hang out with their friends they met in middle school and years before that, than people that came from a different school, such as myself. It is like separated from the cool IB to the new and excluded IB students. Some are very nice and polite, but not so close to be all buddy-buddy. Some are just plain rude and they think that because they are in IB, it makes them smarter than the rest, even better. So...yeah lol Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Blackford Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 It's the same here. Especially among the newcomers in pre-IB, they feel super special, like they are the smartest one's on earth and they are the "chosen" ones. Lol Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brienna Posted August 12, 2013 Report Share Posted August 12, 2013 IB kids in my school are a close-knit group, mostly because of all the stress we've been through together. We all take the same classes, and worry about the same things, and I've made lots of friends through IB that I probably wouldn't have grown close to otherwise. It doesn't get to the point of being a clique though, because we all have friends in the school outside of the program (we aren't an IB exclusive school). We are proud of ourselves for taking the challenge, but the IB program isn't the only advanced program at my school (we also have a large AP community), so it doesn't get out of hand. But, there is some friendly competition between the AP and IB to see who's classes are more rigorous . Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2013 Report Share Posted August 17, 2013 In my school, IBDP was introduced just last year. And in general it has a majority of student studying the ISC curriculum. Actually the major problem is that the ISC (an Indian system of education) and IB sysytem are almost exactly opposite to each other. So basically we have a whole separate block with more technological facilities and better infrastructure, and much more relaxed atmosphere (Yeah we pay much higher fees). And thus we have been branded as IB snobs. Its no wonder that IB students prefer sticking together. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Jeeves Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Well, at my school a lot more people take AP than IB, but for some reason we don't have a honours English class so it's either normal English or IB HL. So everyone who has the dedication to deal with AP/IB classes kind of gravitate towards each other. Most non-IBers in that bunch are taking an IB course or two. That said, many of us have friends outside of the 'advanced' group because most electives don't have prerequisites so you can really meet anyone. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah_Lorelle Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 My school is only IB, but still we have the cliques. They are mostly between students who come from germany (where my school is) and the international kids. In my class there are us international kids (including myself) and 3 groups of germans. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophmliib Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 We have less than 100 IB students in our school and the rest of the school go by a totally different curriculum. So we're like an island on our own But still, there are cliques within the IB society. It depends on which classes you take, I have a few classmates that I never get to meet except during homeroom. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo2108 Posted December 3, 2013 Report Share Posted December 3, 2013 My school is actually mostly IB students mixed diploma and courses. The small group of 6 or so AP students have to be apart of the group because our year is only 65 students. I have friends not doing the IB, we didn't stop being friends. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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