International Baccalaureate

         at South Fork High School

 

 

I.B Home Page

 

  I.B. Information

 •School Profile

 •College Acceptances

 •I.B. Teachers 2007

 

 Curriculum

 •I.B. Diploma Curriculum

 •Diploma Requirements

 

 Student Information 

 •CAS Hours

 •I.B. Milestones

 •Junior IA Schedule

 •Senior IA Schedule

 

 Parent Information

 •Parental Involvement

 •Coordinator's Messages

 •I.B. Parent Group

 •FAQ

 

 Related Links

 •S.F.H.S. Website

 •Pinnacle

 •District of Martin County

 •I.B. Organization

 

IB Parent Role

 

  • Support student
    • This means encouraging to excel, encouraging that student is capable.
    • Checking on timeline/deadlines. 
    • Make it possible for him/her to focus on school and extracurriculars.  May mean minimize working hours for student or considering assisting with home chores during particularly intense times.
    • Minimize hysteria.  It is easy to get swept up when your student goes into a spin, but someone has to keep a level head and feet on the ground.  Every situation is solvable unless serious bodily injury has occurred.  And, nothing else is really important.  Don’t sweat the small stuff and don’t let your student sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff.  There are many successful and happy people who did not go to Harvard.  The richest man in the world did not finish college.
    • Grades are not everything.  Einstein was considered retarded in his early schooling.  Encourage your student to do his/her best, but remember, these are his/her grades.  Let him/her own them!
    • Don’t facilitate cutting corners or dodging consequences.  Let the chips fall where the student dropped them.  He/she will decide how to proceed.
  • Read your IB newsletter; subscribe to the Stuart News for Sundays at least; read your school newsletter.  These are the ways the school has of informing you of upcoming events, requirements, and deadlines.  There are 2,200 students on campus and no room mothers.  Think about it.
  • Attend IB PAC meetings monthly.  You will be more informed than you ever could be from asking your student.  Mom: “What did you do in school today?”  Student: “Nothing.”  Mom: “Anything I should know?”  Student: “Hunh?” 
  • Attend IB functions.
  • Support IB fundraisers.
  • Come to Open House and Parent/Teacher conferences to get to know the teachers.
  • Be prepared to buy books.
  • Remind student that what they are getting—best education we know how to deliver—can never be taken away from him/her.  It is going to provide the platform from which they can soar in to their futures.  That is the value of IB; that is your mantra when the question comes up: Why am I doing this? And it will.
  • If you have a concern or question, first call the teacher.  If you don’t get a resolution, call Mrs. George.  There is a chain of command which should be followed. The  principal should not be called upon until the teacher and Mrs. George, and perhaps the assistant principal, have not been able to solve the issue.
  • Be nice to other IB parents on the phone.