The notes of his daughter rose from 40% to 75%

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Marie Edwine Pierre denounces the lack of information surrounding the impacts of the bulletin, as amended, which would have deprived his daughter of the second year of obtaining his high school diploma.

Daphnée Dion-Viens

Thursday, 22-feb-2018 21:03

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Thursday, 22-feb-2018 21:31

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The mother of a child evaluated according to a bulletin amended, in the second year of primary school, denounces the lack of information surrounding this practice that she would never have allowed if she had known that this special ballot would have been able to deprive his daughter of her high school diploma.

The Newspaper reported Thursday that the number of students in difficulty is assessed according to an amended bulletin to the primary had exploded in a school board of Quebec in the past five years.

For students with special needs, the ministry of Education helps reduce the expectations in relation to program requirements and evaluate students accordingly. They are then no longer recorded in the group average.

In the second year

The daughter of Marie Edwine Pierre is in his second year, in a specialist class for pupils with a language disorder, when the teacher proposes to assess according to a bulletin amended.

“I was told that it is better for her, for his self-esteem, and that it would put less pressure so I agreed to it,” said Ms. Stone. It was not until the following bulletin, when the notes of his daughter spend 40% to 75% in French and math, as Ms. Stone realizes that something is wrong.

She then begins to get involved in parents ‘ committees and to learn about the impacts of the amended bulletin to learn that this piece of paper might deprive his daughter Nathanaëlle of his high school diploma.

When Nathanaëlle begins its third year, last fall, Ms. Stone wants to do to remove the amended bulletin. “If I refused, I withdrew my daughter from school,” she says. Ms. Stone will not have to go that far because as soon as the first meeting, the new teacher proposes to withdraw the bulletin, as amended, which was not necessary according to it.

At the commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles, it is said that the setpoint sent to the schools is clear. “It is necessary that the parent knows that the amended bulletin may be in violation to the obtaining of the diploma of secondary studies,” says his spokesperson, Julie D’amours.

Or Ms. Stone, who has been in touch through a group on Facebook with other parents who have experienced the same situation, says it is far from the only one in this situation. “The amended bulletin should not be used as a last resort, but on the ground, this is not what’s happening,” she says.

Increasing pressure

For its part, the autonomous Federation of education, which represents the teachers of the greater region of Montreal, is opposed to the ballot modified in regular classes. “Students with special needs who are integrated into the regular should be evaluated according to the same requirements”, says its vice-president, Nathalie Morel.

The FAE do not hold any figures which aim to show that there is an increase in the number of entries changed in the school boards it represents. But on the ground, the pressure is growing, ” says Ms. Morel, especially in the school boards of Montreal, Laval and the Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles.

“The school boards provide full-day of training on the bulletin, as amended, which is referred to as a measure of support. Give the illusion of success, it would be a lie”, she says.

The AWF has also undertaken an awareness-raising campaign this fall with parents and teachers to better educate about the impact of this practice.

The issues surrounding the ballots changed rebounded Thursday to the national Assembly, where the member caquiste Jean-François Roberge has denounced this practice, which enables you to inflate the grades, he said.

The minister of Education, Sébastien Proulx, has refuted his comments, but claimed it was a case “exceptional.” However, it has been shown to be sensitive to the gaps surrounding the lack of information sent to parents about this. “Is it that parents are always well informed? Here, we can think about it. It is necessary to be sensitive to this issue.”

The Authorities on the alert

“The liberals have found all kinds of ways to improve our statistics education : they swell the notes, they change the ballots, they increase the graduation rate with all sorts of qualifications. In short, they improve the statistics instead of improving the success. “

– Jean-François Roberge, mp caquiste and critical in the field of education

“It is not permissible or possible that, in some situations, we accompany the children in an exceptional way, for a certain time, in certain subjects ? Is it that parents are always well informed ? There, I think we can think about it. I think you have to be sensitive to this issue. “

– The minister of Education, Sébastien Proulx