B.C. students from kindergarten to Grade 9 will no longer get letter grades | CTV News
B.C. students from kindergarten to Grade 9 will no longer get letter grades | CTV News
All students from kindergarten to Grade 9 in British Columbia public schools will now be assessed with a proficiency scale instead of letter grades.
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I don't know enough about early childhood education to comment on this in an informed way. But I do find the contrast between this change and Ontario returning cursive to the curriculum interesting.
The worry I have is that kids not being exposed to it until grade 10 means they won't have time to get used to it before the grades actually matter for getting into university.
You have a child who spends 10 grades "Meeting expectations" for math then end up with a B- on their Grade 10 Math final.
This isn’t the first time BC has done this. There were only ‘meeting, below and above’ for K-7 from the early 70s into the 80s, and the scholarship examinations in grade 12 kept the old 9 point scale.
Meanwhile, UBC was on the 1st class, 2nd class, pass British system until not that long ago.
Could you explain the contrast? On its face, bringing back cursive seems totally compatible with removing letter grades.
I mean in the sense that the BC curriculum is making a fairly radical change from what most of us are used to compared to Ontario making cursive mandatory again in a move towards traditionalism.
It’s not as though Ontario has better school outcomes than BC, but overall Canada does well as compared to other countries.
Checking out the most recent scores (preCOVID) in OECD PISA high school testing in science and math, Canadian students outperformed all G7 countries except Japan.