My arms drop every time people from the school world demand the abandonment of encrypted report cards at school. Students and their parents need to know where they are in their learning to close gaps.
The debate has been going on regularly for years.
In 2019, the Supreme Education Council called for the end of the “competitive logic”.
Then-President Maryse Lassonde recommended dropping group averages “because it teaches the student absolutely nothing.”
This year it was the school principals’ associations who again raised the charge and trumpeted that this should be “the need of the hour”.
What ? Wouldn’t it be paramount to give teachers the tools to help young people advance? Creating the best conditions to encourage students to surpass themselves?
Why be afraid of certificates with a certain grade?
This number awarded to the student is sometimes the result of insufficient effort or lack of attention.
He will force him to do better.
In addition to the grade, the teachers could also indicate an aspect in the report that should be improved.
One does not exclude the other, on the contrary.
In this way the young person knows, if he has not yet recognized it himself, what he still has to work on.
His parents can also think about how they can accompany him and help him with this discipline.
From the notes, they can observe progress or decline that commands action.
healthy competition
Then there is nothing wrong with a teenager being able to compare himself to his classmates.
Trying to protect him from possible anxieties in the school environment is the best way to make him more vulnerable and fragile once he enters the job market.
Because that’s life. It’s not all easy.
There are obstacles. The competition is tough.
When it comes to shaping the character of individuals, there is nothing better than standing up after failure. You must be able to understand your mistakes. Work hard. overcome them.
In some secondary schools, teachers have decided to no longer require oral presentations in front of the whole class. They prefer young people to express themselves in subgroups of four or five students so it’s less intimidating —. Are we really doing them a favor?
Too old fashioned?
I remember a high school math teacher reading the names of young people with their grades in descending order after their exams.
This teacher would certainly be pilloried today. Still, there was nothing mean or sullen about his step.
It was a way of giving those who were successful a pat on the back and letting others know there was a way to do it better.
Will it one day be too old-fashioned to value effort? Success ?
Fortunately, Education Minister Bernard—Drainville, like Jean-François Roberge before him, did not flinch when told of the new attack to withdraw encrypted ballots.
“The numbered ballots and group averages will remain,” he quickly decided on Wednesday.
Thank you Minister…
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Matthew and Celine
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Genevieve holds back
A political columnist argued that Conservative Pierre Poilievre courted Eric Girard and Geneviève Guilbault to encourage them to jump into the federal government. Were you flattered to hear that? asked a scribe when the minister stopped to answer a few questions. “Ah, there, I might make jokes that my publicist won’t like, so…” she said, smiling, before moving on.
