INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMME:

The International Baccalaureate Programme has come to the attention of Katy ISD parents because the School Board hired a superintendent who had made a name for himself as an Assistant Superintendent in Spring Branch ISD by establishing an International Baccalaureate Programme at an old and dilapidated high school.  He was assisted by a fellow SBISD employee named Marcia Canady.  Obviously he has been very grateful to her for helping to establish the program. Frailey apparently brought Canady to KISD soon after he arrived to write his speeches (I suppose he didn't like that I was sending over corrections.)  When she couldn't help much with that, he put her in charge of setting up the same kind of IB program in KISD that she had established in Spring Branch.  With the help of oil and gas residents in Fleetwood and Barker's Landing who come here for two years and then leave, she garnered (she thought) enough support to make Wolfe Elementary into KISD's IB school. 

Unfortunately for Ms. Canady, some board members (Rebecca Fox and Henry Dibrell to name two), didn't like her or the program, and so far it is still in limbo.

But Katy ISD spent lots of money sending Ms. Canady around the world gearing up to have this worthless program in Katy ISD.  Finally the Board stopped it.

They actually voted to not renew Canady's two-year contract, but Alton Frailey did an end around, and made her a principal, so she stayed anyway.  I hear she has finally gotten tired of the drama (and lack of an IB school) and moved on.  That's a good thing as her thinking was very liberal and was not appropriate for the Katy community in my opinion.

However, as Katy citizens, we should never take our eyes off this program, because they could bring it back in an instant.  And now that they have an elementary school (Wolfe) that just happens to be in the right place with all the IB accoutrements in place and which would be a suitable school for the IB effort, it would not be hard or take much time to put an IB school in our midst.

Once a district has an IB program, it's really hard and expensive to get rid of it.  It's a communistic effort, run by the UN, and we don't need it in Katy!

If you as a parent do not understand the IB program, I highly recommend www.truthaboutib.com  There you will find others all over America who are fighting this really bad educational program.