FUREY: Exams becoming a thing of the past for Ontario high school students

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High school students across the province are technically no longer required to write exams to pass and graduate.

“During the pandemic, educators were able to explore these different methods, many of which will continue into the new school year depending on the course. For example, one possible option is that a student is presented with a real world industry/sector challenge by a professional in that area and, using the skills and knowledge gained throughout the course, provides a solution through a presentation or video, etc.

The teacher adds: “This is essentially giving students permission to forgo deadlines and to learn at their own pace since technically, a student can ‘rescue’ a credit at the very last minute before final marks are due by handing in long overdue work that in the past would have earned a zero.” Nobody cherished the experience, but would that many people who did it really argue that they’d be better off never having gone through it?

“They’re competing against a whole bunch of new Canadians who weren’t raised this way,” says Jocelyn Bamford, a Scarborough manufacturing executive and founder of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses of Canada.

 

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University admissions committees will look at those schools/boards and laugh when presented with a bunch of inflated grades. Kids already enter university unable to compose a written argument. Let's expand that to kids who don't know how to study or sit for a 2 hour exam.

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