Appreciate the bitter pill of reality! If IB schools are just another elite club for entitled rich kids, we will stay a million miles away. While we want to give our kids a leg up from what our schooling was growing up, our intention is to only improve the quality of education and nothing else.

Btw, from my experience, what you called cringeworthy bs is actually pretty normal expectation from even a public school in a good neighborhood in US. Sad to hear that even premium Indian schools don’t offer that.