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[quote=Anonymous]Those five points are accurate summaries of what the letter documents, yes. But framing them as a list makes them sound like five minor complaints.

No MYP Coordinator plus a replacement posting that adds unrelated duties means the role that manages IB Personal and Community Projects, unit planning compliance, and staff training in MYP standards is either vacant or structurally compromised. Both at once.

No consistent IB teacher training means the school cannot demonstrate compliance with IB professional development requirements at re-evaluation. This is not a preference. It is a program requirement.

A collapsed French language track means current students will arrive in upper years underprepared. The board cited strong biliteracy outcomes at the March meeting. The letter documents that those outcomes reflect students taught under the old model. The current cohort is different.

On the DP Coordinator and exam scores: this is a reasonable question. IB exam scores at any school reflect many variables including student preparation across all years, resourcing, and program support. Holding one coordinator accountable for mediocre scores while simultaneously reducing IB training, collapsing language tracks, and destabilizing the MYP pipeline that feeds into DP is not a coherent improvement strategy. You can’t weaken every upstream condition and then blame the person managing the downstream results.

Whatever the performance rationale, the handling of that situation alone reflects a pattern of integrity failures that go beyond any single personnel decision.

On whether the ED has plans to fix this: that is exactly what parents asked at the town hall last Tuesday. He did not answer. That is why people were frustrated. [/quote]

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