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Bow High School Considers UN Curriculum

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

This info keeps coming to the top of this section because it is being updated regularly as new information arrives.

Lack of Community Support only a Speed Bump in Implementing IB in Bow

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Bow holds off diploma program
International courses stir local discontent

April 07, 2008 - 12:00 am

The Bow School District will suspend its application to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, after consideration of the program outraged a segment of the community.

“There’s enough disarray in the community perception of IB that I think we need more time for us to pursue it together, in a more collaborative way,” said School Board Chairwoman Pansy Bloomfield.

IB is a Switzerland-based program administered in 126 countries. If it were implemented in Bow, advanced students in their junior and senior years in high school would be able to take high-level courses and complete IB tests at the end of each one, in addition to filling several other requirements. They would then graduate with both an IB diploma and a regular high school diploma.

School officials had already submitted the first part of the application to make Bow High School an official candidate school. But it had not yet completed the second part, which included writing curriculum and preparing to implement the program.

Recently, IB has drawn criticism from community members who called it unnecessary and a waste of tax dollars. Some said the school should focus on enhancing its Advanced Placement classes instead and should not become beholden to an outside agency. The goal of the program is to understand subjects across cultures and disciplines, and it has also drawn criticism from at least one national organization that called it “un-American.”

At a Thursday night school board meeting that went until after midnight, the board voted 3-2 to hold off on the second part of the application. Superintendent Dean Cascadden said the district is still considering IB but wants to allow for more study and more communication with the community.

“There hasn’t been the communication, the community engagement that’s really needed to launch a program like this,” Cascadden said. “Let’s step back and get the information out, get the community to give feedback and make a decision later on whether this program’s a go or a no.”

Yesterday, Cindy Martin, a parent and Bow budget committee member who, speaking as an individual, opposed the program, said she was happy with the vote.

“I am very pleased that the townspeople did their homework and it seems, for one reason or another, understand the ramifications the IB program could mean to the taxpayers and the children of Bow,” she said.

Martin previously said that she opposed spending money on a new program, particularly one benefiting only a limited number of students, when local taxes were already rising.

At its meeting tonight, the budget committee is expected to vote on whether it would support funding the IB program.

Although the school board vote does not necessarily mean the end of the program for Bow, it does mean a delay. Previously, school officials had hoped that this year’s freshman class would be the first to participate in the program as juniors. Now, Cascadden said, even if the board eventually goes ahead with IB, it would not be ready by September 2009.

Cascadden said the deciding factor was hearing from many of the approximately 35 people who showed up at Thursday’s meeting. Although he said there was a wide range of opinions, there was enough concern by “reasonable, rational” people that the board felt the community did not adequately support the program.

The board cut $8,300 from the budget for IB, but still left $10,700 to allow for further study and professional development. The board will still hold a scheduled information meeting on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the high school.

“The board’s not of the mind to say IB’s gone, we’re never going to deal with it,” Bloomfield said. “We need some time, we need to talk about it in a different way, we need more information we can share with the community.”

The discussion of IB came up as part of a larger discussion of how to cut approximately $150,000 from the budget, as was voted on at the annual meeting.

Cuts that were approved include reducing a program assistant position and extra time for aides, cutting the field hockey B team at the middle school, the winter spirit program and the gymnastics program, eliminating three out of eight Destination Imagination coaches, and not creating a new position for a part-time assistant special education director.

There was also discussion about cutting back the school’s career program, which the board ultimately decided to support.

Source: Concord Monitor

Letter to All from Dean Cascadden April 04, 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Here is the letter written to ‘all staff’ by the School Board Chair Pansey Bloomfield of Bow (and sent from the Superintendent’s email) after facing opposition to the IB Programme.

Letter From Dean Cascadden - April 4, 2008

Cascadden and School Board Stubbornly Refuse To Cut Controversial New Program

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Bow school cuts in the works, IB to stay
Bow Times
By Matt Schooley

Bow school administrators are working to make the cuts approved by voters at the School District Meeting.

They are expecting to bring a proposal to the School Board at a Thursday, April 3, meeting.

During the March 14 meeting, voters approved the Budget Committee’s proposal of $24.8 million, about $152,000 less than the School Board’s proposed budget.

Superintendent of Schools Dean Cascadden said the cuts will need to come from areas that will not have a negative effect on the district.

“I understand that in these economic times, people are conscious of growing school budgets,” said Cascadden. ”We will do what makes sense to reach that cut. You want to make decisions on what will least impact kids, and least impact the academics for kids.”

Bow business administrator Duane Ford said school officials want to create a list that will equal more than the total cuts to give the board different items to choose from.

“What we’re going to need to do is meet with administration, and each building is going to bring their own ideas. We won’t just get things that add up to 152,000, but get some other things we can put out there that we are able to talk about,” he said.

Cascadden also said he plans to accumulate a list of more than the $152,000 before the board decides on the actual cuts.

“I like to bring the thinking forward, so we may have to present more than just the cuts to make sure they reflect the board’s priorities as well,” he said. “I told the staff that if you want to defend something, that’s fine, but we also need to make cuts.”

According to Cascadden, there is a variety of criteria contributing to the decision of what areas will take hits.

“The first thing you’re going to look at is anything new, and there are some special education and custodial positions that we’ll look at,” he said. “We also have to look at programs that are new. We have to say (to the staff), ‘come with your ideas and we’ll we see what kind of things we can come up with.”

Ford said the administration looks at non-mandated programs as well as one-time-only areas such as equipment.

Cascadden said he does not plan to pull out of the International Baccalaureate program as a way to trim the budget.

“We are moving forward with the application with the intent that we want to implicate it. How do you ask people to do all this work and then say we’re not going to do it?,” said Cascadden. “The board will listen to the input from the community, and if we get accepted we’ll listen to that and see. I’m committed to seeing it through, but that could be an area the board looks to cut.”

The Thursday, April 3, School Board meeting will take place beginning at 7 p.m., at the music room at Bow Memorial School.

Momentum to Stop IB Program Builds

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Bow High doesn’t need new program
Brad Hutton, Bow
LTE, Concord Monitor

Re “School considers elite program” (Monitor Local & State page, March 27):

This is not the time to be introducing any new agenda, especially one that has no set cost. If there are students who don’t feel sufficiently challenged at Bow High School, why don’t their parents consider a private school? It is not up to the taxpayers to underwrite advanced education. That’s why post-high school education is offered. I am not against education. There is a time, however, when a line must be drawn. That time is now, before spending taxpayers’ dollars.

Bow teachers are handsomely paid. They have guaranteed step pay increases. Perhaps those teachers at the high school level would be willing to come forward and personally challenge the handful of un-stimulated students at no additional cost to the town. Challenging these students could also begin at home. Is not the Advanced Placement Program sufficient? There are choices other than the proposed International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Think about simple, no-additional-cost options. The faculty at Bow High School is talented enough to do so.

School considers elite program

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The Bow School Board’s IB programme receives an avalanche of criticism. Residents and elected officials have called the International Baccalaureate, or IB, program “unnecessary”, “a waste of money” and even “un-American.”

Global perspective imbues curriculum

When Bow Superintendent Dean Cascadden started looking into a new program for advanced students at Bow High School, he thought the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme would be a “slam dunk.” He read about the program’s reputation as “the best thing since sliced bread,” he said.

But five months after Principal John House-Myers first presented the program to the school board, the board and the administration face an avalanche of criticism. Residents and elected officials have called the International Baccalaureate, or IB, program unnecessary, a waste of money and even un-American. “I can see people not agreeing with programs, but the vehemence, how strongly they feel about it is surprising,” Cascadden said.

School Board Chairwoman Pansy Bloomfield said IB was first brought to the board’s attention about two years ago as a way to challenge advanced students. “We do have a group of students who are beyond proficient, and sometimes those students don’t get as much challenge as they need within the current classroom structure,” she said.

The international program is run by an organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and administered in schools in 126 countries. Cascadden said it was created in response to Americans working overseas who would return to the U.S. and have colleges question the standards of the international schools their children attended.

Today, 613 U.S. schools offer the high school diploma program, according to the organization’s website. But according to Kenneth Relihan of the state Department of Education, they do not include a single high school in Northern New England. Only one high school in New Hampshire, Bedford High School, is authorized as an IB School. It has not yet started implementing the program. One other school, in Gilford, is discussing IB. If Bow adopts the program, it would start in September 2009.

“IB is the thing you do after AP is no longer good enough,” Relihan said. “The reality is, there aren’t that many schools in Northern New England that are at that point where they’re saying AP, that’s passé, everyone’s doing that.”

Relihan said IB is more common in large, urban schools, schools in the South that have more financial support and are trying to boost their reputations, and in some private and charter schools. According to a Newsweek article cited by the school district, 40 of the top 100 high schools in the country are IB schools.

The two-year program is for juniors and seniors, and students graduate with an IB diploma in addition to a regular high school diploma. Students must take classes in six subject areas, three of which are higher-level courses. At the end of the courses, students take an IB test. Students are required to take a core course called “theory of knowledge,” which analyzes how people think in different disciplines. They must write an extended essay and complete a sports, art and community service requirement.

The goal of the program is to teach students to understand different ways of thinking about a subject, across cultures and disciplines.

“It’s an understanding of how the American worldview fits with other worldviews,” Cascadden said.

The district is still in the application process to become an IB school and has not worked out all the details of implementation. But Cascadden said he anticipates that any student could take an IB course and that the student would then be able to take either the IB or AP test, or just receive regular high school credit. Teachers would be professionally trained and would need to teach to all levels in the classroom.

Much of the local opposition to the program has been budgetary.

“In the economic times we’re sitting in now, to spend any money on a new program is not being fiscally responsible,” said Cindy Martin, a parent and member of the Bow budget committee. “We’re going to start taxing people out of their homes in Bow.”

So far, Cascadden said the district has spent about $19,000 on IB-related expenses. In a five-year budget, he projected spending $70,000 next year on IB, while the application is being finalized, for coordination and professional development. In 2009, he estimates that 25 students would enroll and that the program would cost about $110,000. The figures would increase to 150 students by 2012-2013, at a cost of $178,000. The biggest expense would be for extra staff to coordinate the program. Both Cascadden and Martin acknowledged that exact costs are difficult to define. For example, the district does not track expenses like the cost of a substitute when a teacher is at training.

Martin said such expenses would not support the entire student body.

“A lot of costs are thrown into these things that only benefit a limited number of students,” Martin said.

Bloomfield responded that the school board is always exploring new programs and that money spent on IB would otherwise be spent on other programs.

“The moment we stop looking at new programs, stop improving instruction, students will stop learning at the rate they’re learning,” she said. “All education in Bow costs us money. . . . Does it make sense to pull one piece of education out?”

She said the community does not have a referendum to decide what reading or math program to use.

Some residents said they believe the program is unnecessary, since the school already offers AP courses.

“We can save money and enhance the AP program,” said Selectman Tom Keane. “It’s $130,000 that we can certainly use in other areas to shore up our educational system.”

Compared with AP, in which a school can implement just one or two courses, IB requires a larger institutional commitment, an application process and a staff coordinator.

Bloomfield said IB requires different skills. “AP is very knowledge-based,” she said. “AP courses offer ‘how’; IB courses offer ‘why,’ although the same content is covered in both.”

Parent Janice Brunelle said she would rather see students taking college-level classes. With IB, she said, “You’re beholden to an outside group.”

She said she is concerned that an outside organization will set standards for the school, then require it to spend more money.

Parent Lois Davis said she would rather see money spent on the basics.

“Why don’t we stick to basics and do other programs later?” she said. “If I have an advanced student who’s not being challenged, there’re ways that me, as a parent, can pursue that. For my child to test out of college courses on taxpayer dollars doesn’t sit well with me.”

Several residents were also upset that the board started the application without community input.

Van Mosher, who is running for school board on an anti-IB platform, said in an e-mail that he opposes it for several reasons: “The loss of local control where 76 percent of a student grade is graded outside the Bow School District where the individual student has no individual recourse if they don’t feel their grade was fair, and the elitist nature of the program where a few could benefit at the cost of the many.”

He said he is frustrated that the school board said it would cut some sports and activities if its budget did not pass but that it is going ahead with IB.

An anonymous website set up by the Bow Citizens Coalition, a concerned taxpayers group, directs residents to several articles on IB, including two by Allen Quist, a volunteer for the Minnesota-based nonprofit EdWatch. According to its website, EdWatch is an advocate of nonpublic education “without government interference” that teaches the “Judeo-Christian worldview” and “reinforces the sovereignty of the United States and American exceptionalism.”

Quist, an adjunct professor of political science at Bethany Lutheran College, criticizes the message of IB, which he said has beliefs and values that are “contrary to the American creed.” He said the program endorses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which does not subscribe to the same values as the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

“Why do schools want to adopt a U.N. education program instead of a local, state or national program?” he said. IB is not under United Nations auspices but has worked closely with the U.N. and UNESCO.

Bloomfield said she is concerned that the Bow Citizens Coalition is posting the links of what she calls “an extremist group.”

“They use tactics meant to frighten people,” she said. “Most of the misinformation on EdWatch is slanted and misinterpreted.”

She criticized the Bow group for remaining anonymous. “People jump up and down and write letters to the editor. Do they come to school board meetings to speak to the school board? No.”

An informational meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 10 at Bow High School.

Source: Concord Monitor

Informational Night on IB Programme April 10

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Want to know more about the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme?
Please come to an information night on Thursday, April 10 @ 6:30 PM at
The Bow High School Auditorium on White Rock Road, Bow, NH

The International Baccalaureate Program information night originally scheduled for April 2nd was re-scheduled to Thursday April 10 at 6:30 at BHS due to ‘conflicts’.

Source: Bownet

UPDATE: As of March 24, 2008, Supt. Cascadden has posted comments about the IB program. He basically states that even though there is an informational night planned, the parents and teachers will have no input on this.
You can read his comments at his blog on Bownet.

Bow Superintendent Solicits Votes on School Time

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

This article was posted on NH Insider after this email was sent out on school time and presumably to a list of parents and teachers from the Superintendent’s school computer. This is called ‘electioneering’ using the public time and money and is against the law.

Underpaid And Overworked?

Working off an email list I would like access to, the Bow school superintendent, Dr. Dean, took a smidgen of time out of his very busy schedule for a little politicking and a get out the vote effort.

Some how he seems to have an idea what the taxpayer activists may have up their sleeves for the annual meeting but doesn’t seem to have a heads-up on what his teachers may have in the way of strategy.

Maybe he can put a new position of “assistant in charge of political efforts” in next year’s budget.

That would free up time for him to do his job. Of course if Deano wants to really get out the vote he has only to support Senate Bill 2.

From: Dean Cascadden
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:12 PM
To: Everyone
Subject: A Reason to Come Out Tonight

I know that you have gotten a number of reminders about the annual meeting and coming to express your political will tonight, especially if you live in Bow.

Here’s one more…..

I believe that there may be several amendments offered tonight….

1) One may attempt to zero out the lines for the IB program to eliminate it

2) One may be to amend the budget to the school board’s number

3) One may be to cut the budget over a half a million dollars (similar to what happened on the town side last year) because the district turns back a lot of money and we could live on what was appropriated last year.

There is also the possibility that there will be a motion to make all of the votes on the budget secret, paper ballots.

So, I think it will be an interesting night, and I hope we have a good turnout.

I am philosophical about the result…. we get the government we deserve because we live in a free country and have the opportunity to engage in the political process. Don’t be apathetic, let your voice be heard and your vote counted. I will be very happy with any result that is representative of the residents of Bow…. I will be most unhappy if there is a feeling that only a small minority of voters made decisions for a larger silent majority.

Dr. Dean S. T. Cascadden
Superintendent
Bow School District , SAU 67

Source: NH Insider

Contact Your IB Official

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The IBO people state that if the community does not accept the IB program they will not accept the application. Here is the person to contact as to whether you support or do not support the implementation of the IB Programme at Bow High School.

IB North American & Caribbean Head Office
Mr Ralph Cline
Acting regional director
IB North America
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 240,
New York, NY US-10115

Phone: +1 212 696 4464
Fax: +1 212 889 9242
Email: ibna@ibo.org

“Rambunctious voters boost school funds”

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Budget debate was raging before last night’s meeting

Bow residents passed a budget last night that was lower than the school board had hoped but far higher than it could have been.

During a lengthy, rambunctious meeting, voters defeated the board’s request to increase spending by 3.6 percent.

They then thwarted an effort by one resident to freeze the budget, something that school officials said would have forced them to cut staff and suspend all sports and extracurricular activities.

The school had proposed increasing the district’s budget by $850,000, to $24.98 million. The budget committee suggested a slightly lower amount, $24.83 million - the number voters preferred.

The difference isn’t based on specific programs, so it will be up to the school board to decide how to trim expenses next year.

School Board Chairwoman Pansy Bloomfield explained that the board has control over only a small portion of the budget. The board is bound by law to provide certain academic programs, including special education, and it must abide by contracts with its employees.

“We worked very hard to put together a conservative and reasonable budget,” she said. “If we get to a point where we have no toilet paper in the bathrooms, no tissue in the classrooms, that becomes a health issue. There’s a point to which we can’t reduce discretionary spending any more.”

Bloomfield said that the board might have to consider cutting personnel if the budget was reduced. Her prediction elicited a loud, low clap from the back of the room.

Such outbursts were common. Turnout was high, with voters creating parking spaces in snow banks outside and filling the high school auditorium. It usually takes a construction bond or teachers’ contract to draw such a large crowd, but Bow residents were motivated by a budget debate that’s raged all winter in internet chatrooms and letters to the editor.

It played out last night over the course of three hours and a trio of ballot votes.

A few people rose to support the higher budget, but most had savings on their minds. Voters referenced a sour economy and said Bow’s schools shouldn’t be exempt from belt tightening.

“So what if we have to trim some services and programs?” Scott Lucas said. “Isn’t this the issue facing Americans today? We all want more than we can afford. Do we really have to have it all?”

After an hour of debate focused on budget-writing’s most esoteric details, the school board’s version failed, 259-165. An hour later, a proposal to hold spending at $23.45 million failed, 125-275.

An hour after that, the budget committee’s plan passed 274-104.

Between trips to the ballot box, tensions ran high between moderator Jim Hatem and town meeting regular Van Mosher. Early in the evening, a debate over parliamentary procedure devolved into shouting.

“Mr. moderator, my motion is that you follow the rules,” Mosher said. “The secretary of state would be very interested in what you’re doing right now.”

“Sit down!” chorused some meeting goers.

Mosher obliged, but the meeting remained raucous. At one point, a row of men sprang to their feet to shout when Hatem misread an amendment. People debated whether to end debate. When the proposal to freeze the budget failed, the crowd cheered.

At press time last night, several warrant items remained to be decided, including a contract with the union representing the school’s support staff.

Source: Concord Monitor