International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) is recognized for its rigor, inquiry-based learning, and development of academic skills. While it is growing in popularity worldwide, some schools have discontinued the program. Literature on the reasons why schools discontinue the MYP is limited. Using a qualitative case study design, we examined the perspectives of school leaders, former MYP coordinators, and experienced MYP teachers at three private and public Australian schools to find out why they discontinued the MYP. Our findings add to the limited literature base on the topic—they reveal schools discontinued the program due to challenges from various systems-level constraints, leadership issues, school organizational structures, and individual teacher challenges. Although our small sample prevents generalizability, our findings generate novel insights and hypotheses that can inform school decision making and future research about the sustainability of the MYP.

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放弃中学课程：三所学校终止国际文凭课程的理由

国际文凭中学项目 (MYP) 因其严谨、基于探究的学习和学术技能的发展而受到认可。虽然它在全球范围内越来越受欢迎，但一些学校已经停止了该计划。关于学校终止中学项目的原因的文献有限。使用定性案例研究设计，我们研究了澳大利亚三所私立和公立学校的学校领导、前 MYP 协调员和经验丰富的 MYP 教师的观点，以找出他们终止 MYP 的原因。我们的研究结果增加了关于该主题的有限文献基础——他们揭示了由于各种系统层面的限制、领导问题、学校组织结构和个别教师挑战的挑战，学校停止了该计划。虽然我们的小样本阻碍了普遍性，