Opinion: Many teachers, students, and parents have called the new system vague and confusing, but the Eby government is not listening
“Praise has a very valuable place when it follows achievement, but I do not believe that children will go out and succeed in the world simply because they have been praised. … That will not get them anywhere.”
“Student reporting has not changed substantively since 1994,” as the current NDP-led education ministry acknowledged earlier this year in announcing that letters were on the way out for all except Grades 10 to 12. Some 4,500 people responded to the ministry’s questionnaire on the plan to replace letter grades with proficiency ratings.Article content
Apparently, that was enough of a vote of confidence to persuade the current NDP government to stay the course. Moreover, “many of the people opposed to the proficiency scale had no direct experience with it” because they were not from one of the districts already experimenting with the scale. For the school year starting in September, the New Democrats have ordered that students in Grade 9 and below will henceforth be rated as “emerging, developing, proficient or extending.”
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