The last few days remind us of the obvious: our education system is a system that wants to please itself first.
Quebec school becomes a failure-covering factory. Pretending. Giving a good conscience to a machine to the detriment of students.
We are facing an educational slump, as one professor recently said.
disguise
At the heart of this slump is what teachers have long denounced: the composition of grades imposed on them. That is, messing around with results to get the student moving on to the next year, even if it’s not up to standard.
Yesterday, Le Journal unveiled a perfect illustration of the sleight of hand that our education system offers us under the Ministry’s blessing.
Last year a ‘conversion’ of the results for the ministerial examinations in mathematics was carried out. Too many “error” cases; 55% was the new 60%. With a snap of the fingers because the students are not performing well and the standards of the past are no longer being reached.
No big deal if we level down. It doesn’t matter if we disguise failures as successes.
Why are we doing this? To show good success statistics. don’t repeat Bulk Completion. Appearance is important, not the student.
In other words, to please the machine.
Master French? Same dynamic. The ministerial French exam used to count for 50% of the grade. Before the failing factory, we lowered our standards and let the score count for 20%.
The result ? From elementary school to university, functional illiterate people are “passed over” from level to level, always by cumbersome means.
teacher
This system doesn’t care about students.
But he also doesn’t care about teachers, who inherit increasingly dysfunctional, heavy and large classes. And we want to train more teachers?
What does the Fédération des centers de services scolaire offer in this context?
Increase the number of students per class. If it weren’t so tragic, it would be funny.
