I am the author of the article ‘MYP: A Refutation’. I have read the many comments and come to the conclusion that MYP is like religion – you either believe in it or you don’t. I am an MYP atheist, and I doubt if anything can make me a True Believer. My belief that MYP has no educational value has not been altered one iota by anything I’ve read here. Some of the proponents of MYP are obviously fine teachers, but, for the life of me, I don’t understand why they like it. I can only think that MYP, like religion, fulfils some emotional need.
That’s my last word here. Over and out.

I prefer IGCSE to MYP any day. Some schools have developed their own excellent pre-DP programmes e.g. JIS in Jakarta.
The whole basis of my antipathy towards MYP is that is wastes the time of the students. They deserve better than 5 years of tedious brainwashing.

I am the author of the article and have read with interest the replies.
True, MYP does not articulate with DP, but this is NOT its biggest fault.
Sure, MYP seeks to link all the subject areas; but is all the work involved WORTH IT? I've always thought that similar teaching methodologies and the English language are the natural links.
Don't blame school leadership; you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. MYP may be relatively OK in some schools, but they would surely be better off without it.
The study that shows MYP students outshine their non-MYP counterparts at DP level proves nothing. Maybe the sheer relief of leaving MYP behind in Grade 11 gives them an adrenalin boost!
As someone said, the MYP assessment criteria are far too rigid. Good teachers invent all sorts of different criteria all the time to fit the topics they are teaching.

MYP: a Refutation

MYP was vastly unpopular at my school in Vietnam, although we did have one or two MYP evangelists (it suited their personalities – made them feel important). MYP is just as unpopular at my present school in Ghana.

Most teachers grimly accept MYP and quietly pay lip-service to it. If you sign a contract to work in an MYP school, you have to play the game. Personally, I have played the game by attending the required MYP meetings and by doing the bare minimum of Unit Plans. However, I have also felt compelled to speak out about the essential uselessness of MYP.

In Vietnam I wrote to my Head, saying that MYP “has no educational valueâ€