How is the administration working together with the school day to day management, ie, teacher satisfaction, curriculum management?
(Note, I put UK bc a lot of Duke Reddit post come up on searches as Duke University in the USA—not to confuse the two)
Could dog trainers kindly clarify: Do you provide random treats during training sessions, or are treats exclusively reserved for training?
How do I stop my 8yo Cavapoo from sniffing and attempting to hump bigger dogs? When I walk him I have him on leash so it doesn’t happen, my husband lets him off leash (bc it’s easier for his poop preference—he is picky about his spot and can sniff and twirl for 2meters before settling) and sometimes a big dog appears and my Cavapoo decides to sniff and attempt to hump.
Cavapoo has been bitten by other dogs before bc of this, I blame my husband for lack of attention—but my dog somehow still doesn’t get it… pls help
Our 2nd dog, Cavapoo, was rescued from the street. He is extremely picky from eating to pooping.
Poop: he has to go (u can tell by his butthole and how he holds his tail up) but he will sniff and spin for 2meters before finally settling on a spot. The spot changes. Some days is north of the park, some days south of the playground , there is no “set” zone which makes is so unpleasant for the human who walks him—any suggestions?
Eating- we cook both our dog’s chicken and rice. Some days he eats the food, other days he will not eat. He is hungry but he will not eat what’s provided. Now we become short-order cooks and prepare beef, fish or any different foods at the ready. Same goes for his treats - we have 5 open bags of dog treats bc he just won’t stick to one.
Pls help.
We enrolled our kids at ISS Taguspark believing the marketing.
We left. Here is what nobody told us before we signed.
The school is controlled by a family group with no professional background in education.
One brother runs admissions while simultaneously managing investor relations for their investment fund — the same person is responsible for filling classrooms and raising capital from outside investors. Another brother is CFO. There is no Director of Educational Programs. Dukes Education recently acquired a stake.
Dukes CEO publicly describes the school as delivering "world class results." The school does not publish its IB results.
From what parents across the Lisbon expat community have pieced together, those results are among the weakest of any IB school in the region.
Teachers are underpaid and leave constantly.
The head of primary walked out in June 2025 to open a competing school.
The replacement Australian head of PYP announced publicly never showed up.
Every year a significant number of families leave — not because they are relocating,
but because they have found better schools in the region.
The school quietly fills those spots with new families who have not yet experienced the gap between the brochure and the reality.
Some classrooms in the MYP building were converted from a parking structure. No natural light.
Water leaks reported regularly across both buildings.
Sports facilities have been promised since we enrolled.
Someone wrote a detailed account that covers everything we experienced: https://medium.com/@vlad2740/international-sharing-school-iss-tagus-park-5a3fee3204da
The same patterns have been documented independently at their Madeira campus: https://nrpro.medium.com/international-sharing-school-iss-madeira-when-business-models-meet-education-4308fdbe12dc
Same group, same approach, different city.