TORONTO — Ontario is doing away with an educational practice long criticized for disproportionately targeting high school students from racialized backgrounds, the provincial government said Monday.
The Education Ministry did not immediately provide details on the policy shift or the rationale behind it, but Premier Doug Ford said it was intended to bring Ontario’s education in line with the rest of the country while ending a discriminatory practice. Ford said about 50 per cent of Ontario’s Black students wind up in the applied stream, a number much lower than the rest of the student population.
The United Nations also sounded the alarm in a 2017 report from its Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. The report addressed what it described as ongoing, institutionalized racism in the education system and its long-lasting consequences.
So Gr 9 will now be the new Gr 8. Have they really thought this through?
How do you expect kids to decide their entire future when they can't even figure out what bands they like at 14? Further, how 'out of ideas' do you have to be to suspend 5-8 year olds? I think the Ontario eduction system needs a little education themselves on dealing with kids
I'm not really trusting that he is caring all of a sudden? Then the solutions need to start in JK...you need to put your money up front; invest in the beginning; all studies on everything education say earlier the better
But if they don’t provide more help for kids falling behind in elementary school, and ensure that they are functioning at or near grade level by the time students reach grade 9 nothing will be fixed! Intervention must happen EARLY!
It's nice to see our education system getting away from the liberals train wreck system
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