Eight Maplewood Middle School teachers voiced complaints about the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme implementation at the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education meeting on Monday night and asked that the program be defunded.

The teachers said that they had made good faith efforts to implement the program and even admired its goals, but that ultimately they found that it was bringing no added value, was wasting their time and that of their students, and was bleeding resources from the district that were sorely needed elsewhere.

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