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West student and parent press board to reinstate AP French 5 and improve district communication

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A Waukesha West sophomore and her mother asked the board to reconsider discontinuing AP French 5 and criticized how students and teachers were notified; a community member raised broader concerns about communication at West High.

A Waukesha West student and her mother urged the School District of Waukesha Board of Education on March 12 to reinstate the district’s AP French 5 offering for current students and to improve how the district notifies teachers and families when courses are discontinued.

“The school district is stopping my education by only providing half of a curriculum,” Kyra McCarthy, a sophomore at Waukesha West, told the board during the public comment period. McCarthy said her French 4 class uses a rolling curriculum that covers the first three units of the AP 5…

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