6月1日，家長會長，黃雅玲已經正式提呈畢業條款更改連署書。以下為董事長，陳彥良宣佈董事會於6月8日的投票結果。

Dear MCS Parents and Teachers, 

On June 1, The Parent Council Chairperson, Yaling Huang has officially submitted the petition of changing the graduation requirement to the MCS Board. The Board Chairperson, Yen-Liang Chen announced the decision of the MCS Board members on June 8.

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Below is the summary of the voting result based on what I’ve gathered, but please advise if I missed anything; otherwise, I hereby announce that the petition review has been concluded and did not pass. 

– For/Yes: 1

– No/Against: 4

– Abstain: 1

Feedback from the board members:

These changes will raise questions in the future, like why condition 2 doesn’t require proof from transfer students, but condition 3 requires proof. I disagree with this change.

If the student left the school, it doesn’t make sense to allow the student to return to the school to request a graduation certificate if they managed to complete Chinese AP with a score 4 or above within 5 years of leaving the school. It’s like the student left Eastern Michigan University in the second year, completed the degree at UOM, and then returned to EMU asking for a certificate. How would this make any sense? So I disagree with this change.

• The proposal contemplates a condition through which the MCS students, either currently studying at MCS or being a former MCS student who left the school within five years from the last day of class attendance, who achieve level 4 score in the Chinese AP exam can be eligible for the graduation certificate.  However, per the current verbiage of the Section III.i.8 (snip below) within the MCS Policy & Procedure Manual, the graduation certificate is meant to reward students for their perseverance of studying Chinese language while cultivating their cultural experiences and appreciation on a gradual, immersive basis, rather than to certify the students’ Chinese capabilities; therefore, unless the verbiage within the Section III.i.8 (Graduation Requirements) is revised to contemplate such “capability” based requirement, the proposal would lead to an inconsistency as to what the graduation certificate truly encompasses
• Assuming such “capability” based requirement were to be incorporated into the Graduation Requirements section of the MCS Policy & Procedure Manual, additional questions (below) may arise which would give me a pulse:
  • Why not use AP level 5 score (vs. level 4) as the criterion if the intention is to certify students’ Chinese capabilities?
  • The proposal would allow a situation in which the students can be eligible for the graduation certificate if they achieve AP level 4 score, but only study at MCS for one year (or even less).  In this case, how do we justify/reconcile the purpose of the MCS graduation certificate when the students can be rewarded either through the “tenure” (i.e., perseverance) track or the “capability” track (e.g., AP level 4 with a “short” study at MCS)?
  • Everything being equal otherwise, what’s the point of issuing the graduation certificate to those students who have left MCS for less than five years and score level 4 in Chinese AP test but weren’t qualified for the graduation certificate by the time they left MCS?  Also, why is five years being the cutoff threshold?  Why not use one, two, or three years, if and only if this “claw back” type of criteria can be justified?