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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm talking about having a consistent and transparent process so that teachers know exactly what standards students need to meet and what the process is for communicating with parents and administration about students in danger of being released. Students are released throughout the year, especially 9th graders. This is not just something that happens during the summer.

The 3.0 GPA requirement is no longer a thing, or at least it hasn't been enforced at all.

There should be a consistent standard and process, because I have seen parents put up a fight and drag the process on for months while some students are released right away because they don't have someone advocating for them.  This puts teachers in a difficult situation. [/quote]

The standard is 3.0 that has been the standard the whole time.  The fact that Bonitatibus didn't enforce that standard through a liberal waiver policy  doesn't change the standard.

All this happens at the end of a school year, how do parents drag it out for months ... during the summer, how are teachers ever involved ... are you suggesting that teachers should change their grades to prevent this?

This doesn't happen in the middle of a semester or at the end of the fall semester.  It happens at the end of a school year.

It's hard to believe you are a teacher at TJ and you would not know this.[/quote]

1. Glazer enforced the rule when it was new. Bonitatibus was at TJ largely during Covid and recent post-Covid times. Brabrand and the schoolboard controlled the 3.0 process at that time, when kids were being given extra chances left and right at all schools, so it seems reasonable this is why the process at TJ was paused. New leadership with Reid and Mukai is likely why the process is running again.

2. If you haven't gone through it, how would you know how it works? Teachers, admin, students and parents are all involved all year long. They don't just send you a letter and say you're out without intervening along the way. And yes, kids are being asked to consider returning mid-year. This is Mukai's policy, as the reg does not specify -when- kids are sent back. Parents have the right to appeal and sometimes that can involve a lot of conversations and go higher than the principal, which can in fact drag on and on.[/quote]

So are the standards shifting and unclear under Mukai?
Is he being arbitrary and capricious or targetting certain students based on non-academic factors?[/quote]

Why would a principal "have it out for" certain kids. It's not like TJ has a big discipline problem like many base schools where they may be "trouble-makers" a principal would love to offload. Just doesn't make sense. [/quote]

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