Reply #80: I read the link. I just want to understand how the falling out started.

[bhikkhu]

Apparently everything was fine on August 1st. The link and the OP are both all about the mess afterwards. Without knowing the cause of the mess, its hard to know what to think of the situation.

If I were looking at the implementation of a new schedule and a new curriculum, as those involved are, I'd look at the best way to do it. You could roll it all out at once in a hurry, and work out the kinks as you went along, and probably find that a number of things could have been done better. Or you could study and plan for a year, work everything out in great detail and get everyone one board and on the same track, then roll it out in a good organized fashion; but then you'd probably find that there were things that weren't thought of anyway, and things that could have been done better, and maybe that year wasn't so well spent as it could have been.

Or, as there are many schools involved, you could begin the new program in just a few schools on a monitored-trial basis, and really focus on working out the best implementation on that smaller scale. By the end of the year it could all be nailed down with some confidence, and set up well for the next year system-wide effort. As far as making big changes and improvements, that may be the most effective and economical, and the least disruptive to the kids themselves...