Moalims

A: Now that admission season for schools have begun, did you notice the amount of billboards, flyers and expensive prospectus pamphlets being delivered to each house in posh areas?
S: Education has become a business first and fore mostly. It’s all about the most expensive schools, the fancy programs they offer and the debate between IB versus conventional programs.
A: What is this IB now? Like its not enough to have a hundred education systems running parallel in Pakistan that we need another one in the list.
S: IB stands for the International Baccalaureate. It’s a system that starts at the preschool level and boasts to make children thinkers and leaders of tomorrow. It challenges the conventional system of education, focusing on the how and why of a concept from a more global perspective.
A: Don’t you think it is more of a fad for rich people who want to feel exclusive by saying in their social circle that our child studies in the IB program?
S: It might have its merits. It has been gaining popularity around the world. The only problem is that it does not have a set syllabus that schools follow so the uniformity is missing. It is at the discretion of the school to teach the concepts however they want.
A: Let me get this straight. Schools teach whatever they want; however they want and they call it IB and charge more money to teach the things they were going to anyway?
S: Well if you put it that way… I guess it is a useless fad after all.

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