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Beverly teachers and parents press School Committee over proposed 3-person middle-school teams and cut to German program
Summary
Teachers, parents and students warned the committee that moving some grade teams from two to three teachers and eliminating middle-school German would harm cohesion, increase class sizes and reduce long-term language offerings for students.
Beverly — Multiple teachers and parents urged the Beverly School Committee on May 14 to preserve the district’s two-person middle-school team model and to reconsider a proposed elimination of the middle-school German program.
Stephanie Andrews, a high-school German teacher, told the committee she first spoke on the issue in 2018 and warned that cutting middle-school German “will have far reaching consequences” for the high-school program and reduce students’ long-term access to the language. Allison Nichols, a seventh-grade Spanish teacher, said eliminating German “not only limits choice, it also diminishes the strength and diversity of our world language program as a whole.”
Teachers described the two-person team model at Beverly Middle School as a core…
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