Constanze Schummer is the IB Co-ordinator at Salem Boarding School in Germany. She discusses with Fiona Murchie the growth of the International Baccaulerate (IB) in international education. She also considers the importance of a relational education, looking at the whole student’s growth, through all the interactions children have at school, in the classroom, in the boarding halls and in their extra-curricular activites.
Only a couple of years ago, the prime minister of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany sent her child to a private school close to their home. The German public heavily criticized her for this decision. They considered her encouraging private education as proof for the decay of the public educational sector in Germany.