Posted on 10/31/2024 2:08:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
“A’s” are gone from British Columbia report cards, but B.C. parents hoping to gauge their child’s performance find the newfangled “descriptive” grading system confusing, according to a new report.
Last year, the B.C. government scrapped the traditional A, B, C grading system for kindergarten to Grade 9 students in favour of a descriptive grading system that saw student progress judged along a scale from “emerging” to “extending.”
“Parents, by and large, do not understand the new descriptors: emerging, developing, proficient, and extending,” said Michael Zwaagstra, a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute.
The report, conducted by Leger for the Fraser Institute, asked parents of school-aged children (ages five to 18) enrolled in public and independent schools across Canada to match “extending” to its B.C. government definition.
In B.C. specifically, 43 per cent of parents made the wrong choice, the highest proportion of any province; extending, per the government’s decision, means “The student is meeting the learning standard expectations with increasing depth. This is not perfection.”
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So no A in B C?
More candy @$$ liberal newspeak clap trap.
Emerging-—WTF does that mean?
Retired teacher here. Used to be at the front of the book where we entered grades (how quaint!) there was a written description of what each grade meant. Working from memory it was something like this:
A Excellent. Exceeds all expectations.
B Above Average. Meets all expectations, exceeding in some.
C Average Meets most expectations.
D Below average. Meets only some expectations
F Failure. Does not meet any expectations.
This was all based on the assumption that teachers were expected to have high standards in what they expected from their students. But alas those days are gone. Ted Kennedy’s No Child Left Behind actually envisioned a day where every student should receive an A.
Just a convoluted, PC method for designating A/B/C/D
It looks that way.
I don’t know.
he/she/it is emerging from idiocy?
It is all so stupid, isn’t it? You will always have the same five achievements levels no matter what you call them. As a famous bard once wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
That’s right.
Is there a descriptor for failed? I’d argue that failing at something can teach a valuable life lesson, and possibly inspire some to try harder.
Yep and they’ll abandon it when most minorities are emerging and most whites are extending.
“emerging, developing, proficient, and extending,”
Playing games with words is the stock and trade of the Left:
“emerging” = D
“developing” = C
“proficient” = B
“extending” = A
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (only the b*llsh*t terms have been changed)
We had that system when I was in first grade. We also had a reading system where words were spelled as pronounced, hence “þe þawtful oul sez h₩t h₩t”.
All according to plan. Parents are not supposed to understand what the schools are doing. In fact, just about all education today is conducted in “educationese.” The problem is that it looks a lot like English, but it is not.
Too many Chinese immigrants made the locals look bad.
Most likely.
National Post : “A 2021 report by B.C.’s ministry of education that surveyed more than 4,000 people before the change found that 69 percent of respondents were dissatisfied with the idea.”
So in true Fidelito Trudystopian fashion, following the brilliant lead of U.S. socialists/totalitarians, the B.C. ministry of education enthusiastically, joyously flipped the bird to B.C. subjects.
Whatever became of the practice of “if it’s not broke don’t fix it”?
This is all about making it easier to cover up the dismal performance of the non-whites.
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