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New safety
40 /59 protocols to
2018-19 cohort
DP students counter school
earned their
IB diplomas shootings
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Seniors and juniors
STAFF WRITER
New changes in securi-
leyball champs! currently enrolled ty are being implemented at
in full DP* Ann Arbor Public Schools.
Beginning in 2019, all of the
AAPS high schools will have a
visitor desk. The visitor desk
will handle all incoming visi-
tors, which includes running a
IB facilitators Todd Newell, Anna Fleury and Carrie James pose by IB sign. SARA BADALAMENTE background check.
AAPS Executive Director

Where do we go from here? of Student and School Safety

PAGE 8: new Conclusions from the first-ever DP scores released this summer
men’s varsity JULIE HENG
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
soccer coach
After scores were released
in July, 40 of the 59 students
in Huron’s first International
Baccalaureate graduating co-
hort - 68 percent - passed all
exams and requirements to
earn full IB diplomas.
“We feel really good about
where we started with the
number of students [in the
Diploma Programme] that re-
ONLINE: last ceived [the IB diploma in addi-
Friday’s home tion to the Huron High School
diploma], although we are re-
football game ally looking forward to Cohort
Two,” district IB facilitator
Kevin Karr said.
IB exams are scored from
one to seven. In order to re-
ceive an IB diploma, candi-
dates must receive a minimum
of 24 points or an average of
four out of a possible seven
points for six courses. Can-
didates must also receive a
minimum of 12 points in their
three Higher Level courses
and a minimum of nine points
in their Standard Level cours-
es. Thus, on average, earning
a four or above on an exam is
considered passing. The stu-
dents who earned their IB di-
plomas had an average score
of 4.96.
Liz Margolis is the head of this
effort.
“Visitor desks are con-
sidered a best practice for safe
As a whole, out of the 35
schools,” Margolis said. “It re-
exams Huron students took,
exam averages across 22 sub-
ally is about knowing who’s in
your school.”
jects were either above a four
This isn’t the first time
or above the world average
that AAPS has worked on im-
score.
proving school security. About
These scores acted as “a
six years ago, AAPS partnered
good barometer check” for the
with the Ann Arbor Police
IB team to evaluate teachers’
Department to create a new
predicted scores against actual
protocol to keep students safe
scores from IB examiners.
during the school day.
“We saw that sometimes
“We put in a protocol
the scores were very close to
where all of our perimeter
what teachers thought they
were going to be,” Karr said.
doors would be locked during
the school day,” Margolis said.
“We also saw that some-
“This was a big cultural change
times our teachers were
for many of our schools. I
See DP CHANGES, PAGE 2 See GUN SAFETY, PAGE 3

The global epidemic of sexual

briefs
NEWS

assault on college campuses JULIE HENG

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
CHARLOTTE BUNCH, she said. “I did not know what
CLARA BOUDETTE, to do. It got to the point when I
HIRAN DEWAR AND
was incredibly uncomfortable. New senior class and music teacher Andrew Steck.
I moved my body over, and he
MAUREEN KENGARA fell off the couch and ran off. I adviser announced Mr. Bai’s new baby
GUEST WRITERS was confused, upset and English teacher Sara-Beth Badalamente
emotional all at once.” was selected as the new 2020 class adviser Science teacher Daniel Bai’s baby son,
*A source in this story Amanda is not after Taylor Glinski stepped down. Luka Zeke Bae,
was used anonymously alone in what hap- was born at 2:22
“I am excited to be working with the
to protect their identity.
pened to her. Sexual Class of 2020. They are a highly motivated p.m. on August
This story contains ac-
counts of sexual assault. violence is a perva- and dedicated group,” Badalamente said. 21. He weighed
sive act that occurs This is the third senior class that she has seven pounds six
It was getting globally. Accord- worked with in the past five years. ounces and was
late when Aman- ing to the non- Like all past senior boards, the Class of 20.24 inches
da* fell asleep profit Rape, 2020 Exec Board, led by its president Sami long.
in her friend’s Abuse & Incest Ruud, will plan events like the homecoming “If I look tired
basement. National Net- rally and prom for students this year. with a smile Baby Luka! PHOTO
COURTESY OF DANIEL BAI
“I was asleep work, someone on my face, it’s
on the couch, in the
States is
United
sexual-
New staff members probably cause of Luka,” Bai said.
then all of a sud-
den I feel a weird ly assaulted ev- Over the summer, Huron hired new Community vegetable
ery 95 seconds. staff members, including DP facilitator Anna
pressure on top
of me,” Amanda Thomas Kent, Fleury, records professional Tanya Tassin, garden flourishing
said. “I [took] a a lawyer with French teachers Linda Shill and Marci Har-
quick glance as to the University ris, Arabic teacher Shaima Busani, math The first thing you’ll notice in
what it was.” JULIE HENG of Michigan’s Of- teacher Peter Cunnigham, special education the community garden are the sun-
It was the nanny’s boyfriend. fice of the General teacher Courtney Pusta, nurse Ann Burdick See BRIEFS, PAGE 3
“I was frozen in that moment,” See ASSAULT, PAGE 2
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DP CHANGES | FROM PAGE ONE said, noting that teachers have have to do work to get better

27 DP exams
already begun working vir- because we certainly expect
grading too hard: [what] they

192 1329
tually and in-person over the that Huron will perform at the
thought maybe was a five and
summer to revise courses. In top,” Karr said. “Every subject
IB thought is a six.”
late August, all the Ann Arbor area has some highlights and
The opposite was also
IB teachers attended train- areas to work on and we’ll end
true, where students received
lower scores than predicted by
ing with 20 other IB schools
across the state. There were
up talking about those and
planning for those this year.” taken last year
Non-full DP
teachers.
“That additional feed-
13 workshops designed specif- Changes have already DP courses students
ically in topics like math, sci- been made to assist the sec- available at Huron
back lets us understand where who also took DP
[teachers and examiners] saw
differences in terms of how
ence, counseling and special
education.
ond cohort of DP students
with time management and 22 /35 exams last year

4.96 first
“Every subject in every deadline control. Drafts of

year
the student performed based
course has places where they extended essays are now re-

on what they turned in,” Karr
quired well in advance, with
more structured deadlines
to keep students on track.
Why was Huron chosen as the There are several new
introductions to the DP as
AAPS “IB high school”? well.
Firstly, four new math
>> Spring of 2014: AAPS decides to courses will be introduced this
year to replace last year’s Math
start IB pathway as part of strate- Standard Level and Higher
Level classes: Math Applica-
gy to meet internationally-focused
tions & Interpretation (in both
standards Standard and Higher Level op-
tions) and Math Analysis and
>> Karr: Mitchell, Scarlett and Huron Approaches (Standard and
Higher Level). These are con-
is “the most diverse pathway” of sistent with changes across the
schools in the district, with “all kinds global IB curriculum.
Secondly, Huron has
of different perspectives from all a new DP facilitator who will
over the world” built in. AAPS aimed oversee the program.
Eric Wynn, the previ-
to focus the potential benefits of ous facilitator, left Huron over
high IB standards where “achieve- the summer. He transferred to
ment [is] needed to be focused the De La Salle, an all-boys Cath-
olic high school in Warren,
most.” where he is the new DP pro-
gram director.
>> Bryant-Pattengill, one of Tappan’s Wynn’s position will
be filled by Anna Fleury, who
feeder schools, is in the early stages has taught in IB schools from
of becoming an IB school Kenya to China and the Inter-
national Academy. In her 18
Huron exam
Average exam averages passing
score, out of 7, or over the world
earned by the average / total
DP students exams offered
who passed their (from scores released
IB diplomas this summer)
years of IB experience, Fleury
has served many roles: MYP
and DP Literature teacher,
Theory of Knowledge teacher,
extended essay coordinator
and mentor in theatre and En-
glish, moderator for internal
assessments and official ex-
aminer for Group One English
exams.
“Every school has
their own IB flavor,” Fleury
said. “One of the strengths of
the IB program is its ability to
adapt to almost any communi-
ty while still maintaining high
standards. The biggest dif-
ference I see between schools
abroad and U.S. schools is
class size. The U.S. classes are
29
Huron teachers
teach DP courses
in the six IB
academic groups
JULIE HENG
much larger and feed many
more students. It’s a testa-
ment to our teachers and our
schools that we have great suc-
cess — success equal to inter-
national schools — with larger
class sizes.”
Fleury said she sees “a
great amount of passion and
knowledge of this program
among the staff” and looks
forward to growing Huron’s
program, especially its inter-
national mindedness compo-
nent.
*Enrollment statistics are
from Aug. 28, when 2019-20
course selections were not
been finalized.

ASSAULT | FROM PAGE ONE the person can be reported tween “informal” and “formal” for Complaints of Sexual Ha- ucates students about sexual
to law enforcement. Second, complaint procedures under rassment or Sexual Violence, assault as a part of the center’s
Counsel, said that sexual vio-
there is civil, where one person Title IX. The main difference hosted by former Huron coun- Bystander Program.
lence often goes unreported.
sues another and may result in is that the formal complaint selor Dr. Eaddy-Richard- “The primary part of
“[W]here the victims are
compensation for survivors. process launches a fact-find- son. the Bystander Pro-
18-24 years old, [sexual vio-
Last, there is the option to ing investigation. Once an ad- The issue gram is first year
lence] is not reported around

90 percent of the time for a lot
of reasons: memory, fear of
confronting the situation they
don’t want to be bothered with
it, they’re scared of what
their parents might
think, and alcohol
is involved more
often than not,”
Kent said.
Guilt and
confusion
are also very
common after
If you need
experiencing
sexual assault.
“The next
morning the
Huron’s counseling office also has im-
nanny made us mediate resources, including information
all breakfast and for crisis lines, safe houses and drop-in
he was acting to-
tally okay,” Aman-
da said. “Almost as
if nothing happened.
I went home and was de-
bating if should tell my mom.
I was still uncomfortable with
the whole situation.”
Nevertheless, if a survivor
does choose to report, there
are a few options. According to
Kent, there are three common
options for legal action when
sexual assault has occurred.
First, there is criminal, where
27%
report the assault to the ad- ministrator receives a written of sexual presentations,”
ministration of the university complaint, an investigation is assault is Harve said. “Stu-
conducted, a determination even more dents will get
of female college
of harassment or violence is prevalent presentations
made and discipline is and nu- seniors reported on how to be
potentially enforced. anced on unwanted sexual good active
In late April, a university bystanders and
conduct in
Community High campuses intervene when
Safe hotline for complaints of sexual School parent than in the college they see prob-
harassment or violence: accused the general public. lematic situations,
school of A survey commis- whether it be at a party
734-545-2321 improper- sioned by the Association of and seeing someone take
ly deal- American Universities in 2015 someone upstairs
help reporting a formal complaint, ing with showed that over 27 percent of o r
a trusted adult can help you. sexual
assault
female college seniors report-
ed experiencing some form
cases. of unwanted sexual conduct
The Title while in college. Lately, sexu- calling
IX com- al assault on college cam- out problematic
plaint, puses has been receiv- stuff like jokes.”
which was ing significantly more “It shouldn’t just
centers around town later retract- attention than in the be on a survivor to figure
ed, accused the past, augmented by the out how to get out of a prob-
school of failing Me Too Movement lematic situation,” Harve said,
to report a rape al- and stories of sur- suggesting solutions to pro-
legation to the police. In vivors. With more vide students with strategies
where response, Superintendent media attention, col- to prevent sexual assault from
the assault took place, which Jeanice Swift stated that “[n] leges have also started
can lead to suspension or ex- o administrator suppressed to pay attention See more of this special
pulsion. or discouraged any report to this issue, par- human rights coverage
At Huron, and all oth- of an incident described ticularly relating to (a collaboration be-
er Ann Arbor Public Schools, in the complaint.” prevention.
tween The Huron Emery
students can reach out to The superinten- Maithri Harve, a
student at Boston College, and the IB Global Pol-
counselors or other adults for dent opened
help reporting what has hap- the AAPS works at the Women’s Center itics class) online at
pened. AAPS distinguishes be- Hotline on her campus, where she ed- thehuronemery.com