Some B.C. parents and students are giving the B.C. Ministry of Education a failing grade this week.
That’s after the province announced that a “proficiency scale,” instead of letter grades on report cards, will be expanded to include Grade 9 students.
Grade 7 student Keon Shahbaz is appalled with the province’s move as what was once a pilot program is now applying to all B.C. public schools, scrapping letter grades from Kindergarten to Grade 9. Kian’s mother Mahta Boozari said a proficiency scale of assessment only encourages mediocrity and puts her children’s education at risk.
A UBC Faculty of Education professor and elementary school teacher Victor Brar said the shift is part of an evolution in learning. Global’s Negar Mojtahedi reports.
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What is going on in this world? Can that big asteroid hit us or aliens come wipe us out already planet needs a do-over
This is what happens when dumb people breed
This is a good idea!
If the school never failed a student, then what is the point of giving a grade?
This is pure communism. New system is designed to create a future society of mediocre people unable to work, study, improve their skills, innovate, make families with children, buy their own properties to grow their families. This is the end goal.
Parents: There are grade level tests all over the internet (focus on Math and English). Make them do it. Then, if they are struggling, work on the areas they need help with over the summer. Parents are a child's best teacher. We homeschool and my kids thought they didn't have to "do school" anymore LOL! Some of them have to work on reading, others writing, and one can choose her own learning because she is ahead:)
One of the big problems this has caused is that the children realize that they are not graded until grade 10 and thus don't try and even skip school because they know it counts towards nothing.
By the time they reach grade 10 they've developed negative routines that are hard to break out of.
This all stems back to taking competition out of children's events so that they all feel like winners. When you don't celebrate your wins and everyone gets a trophy, no one's strives to try their best. 😢
Welcome to the future.
another push from leftist culture to pussify the nation and coddle everyone. Pathetic
Yup, let’s change the way things have been done for years on end, just because no good reason.
Of course no grades. An uneducated population is easier to control.
That first kid was so coached and used like a pawn! His parents should be put away for abuse
Changing the parameters, so that the future burger flippers still feel they have a chance in the world! Great!
That's what you get for sending your kid to public school and BC. 90° of the curriculum is spent on teaching your kid how to be woke AF
I do not see what the fundamental issue the parent is concerned about. Children will still be evaluated on what they know and how much they know. The child in this piece is quite advanced which is visible by his vocabulary and as he progresses through the education system (and potentially skips a few grades) he will still be recognized for either his effort or skill. The question for me is at what point do you focus on "learning" and at what point do you focus on a numerical evaluation of who someone is and how to represent that person. It also does not impact university access, since this only covers up until grade 9. It reminds me of a friend in the Bay Area who has two children in a special public STEM grade school. The children attending this school were all gifted and there were no number grades until some parents complained because their children were at a disadvantage compared to other schools. He was at the time upset since he felt his children were more focused on the content vs the score, which in the end led to his sons learning and focusing on areas they were particularly gifted vs areas in which the school evaluates the children (beyond any state-mandated standardised tests of course). This argument kind of dissapears when the change is systappears when the change is system-wide
The education system promotes anti education.
They don't learn. The education system is a joke
Letter grades are a response to an assessment to gauge performance and progress of a group of students. It is not the grade but what skills aka talents assessed that needs to be re-evaluated. What should the learning outcomes of a student be?
As the bad guy in the Incredibles said, "When everyone is special…no one is"
Welcome to the New World…
When they're about to reset , they have dumb down the next generation….
They tried that when I was in uni in the 60s…it was an EPIC FAIL. Do they never learn????? Lazy people stayed lazy, hard workers stopped trying. IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!
The problem is they are extending it too far to grade 9. Grade 2 at most. A small child is clumsy and still trying his best to learn. I think the proficiency scale is adequate to say "you can do better" and not discouraging.
Growing "science" trusters
Basically K-9 is the new kindergarten now.
Hey Global for better or for worse, we will over turn this again. and kick your progressive ideas out.
How to you grade LGBGTQXYZ? Certainly not A, B, C, D, E, and F.
When are people going to realize that elementary school junior high, and high school is nothing but a bunch of nonsense? It’s just to keep your kids busy while you go and work and pay taxes. If you’re so concerned, send your child to private school to get a better education anyways.
no failure system
Who cares. We have an indoctrination system, not an education system anyway. This just goes to show you how dumb society has become. This is what parents are worried about? Got news for you. We got way bigger issues to worry about!
0:02 Wait till you start working kid.
Public school is helping the government product obedient, low ambition hourly workers. I guess private school will be creating the self-employed, entrepreneurs, and upper management. Total class divide.
in Canada, we fail upward !
They want slave not free thinkers. The education system is nothing but a prison system for kids
New grading system coming out. Your grade will be based on a new lettering system LGBGQT, you will fall into one of those letters on your grades.
Stupid is as stupid does!
What a pathetic place Canada has become