Donate now

Privacy Policy

Protection of privacy is our first concern, and SQE does not sell or trade information provided by its subscribers or supporters. Your information is used to process donations and newsletter subscriptions, and to contact you about upcoming publications and events.

feed iconSubscribe to our Blog
Follow Us
Follow SQESocQualEd on Twitter

Please note Downloads require you to have the Adobe Reader installed, you can get it here for free Adobe.com

 

 
 
Society for Quality Education

The EQAO Results in Perspective

September 14, 2012 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 04:58 AM

GUEST BLOG BY PETER McLARTY, RETIRED TEACHER, SAULT STE MARIE

A news report regarding the EQAO test results for the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (my former employer) leaves me speechless. http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/details.asp?c=47060 

How can the board brag about these results! How long is the public going to put up with these pathetic results? All of this testing and analysis and still more than one-third of the students are not making the standard….especially in mathematics. And yet students continue to be pushed along. 

One of my greatest regrets in teaching senior level chemistry was that most of the unsuccessful students failed not because of their lack of scientific knowledge but from their inability to do the applied mathematical problems! Sadly, I see little hope for change because all those now employed in education are products of this disfunctional system. A little harsh, but that is the way I see it.

I have moved away from educational conflicts and am enjoying more rewarding persuits. I have totally lost faith in public education.

Comments

Here’s the spin from one of our boards. The other board, the Catholic one did one better with a press release with their good news again, that they’re exceeding the provincial average….by far! Still top of the province.

http://huron.bulletnewscanada.ca/2012/09/14/avon-maitland-grade-3-children-raise-the-bar-for-standardized-testing/

Posted by Chuck on 09/14 at 03:15 PM

It`s so true-I have felt that way for years-how can the public fall for a positive spin on over 40 percent failure in some boards by the end of grade 3.

I am also very suspicious of great improvements by grade 6 in the same boards when foundational skills are shown to lack so dramatically by grade 3.

The newspapers all play ball with the press releases.I guess even there their power is not to be played with.

Posted by Jo-Anne Gross on 09/15 at 08:02 AM
Page 1 of 1 pages

Leave A Comment

Name:

Email (required but not displayed):

Emotions

Notify me of follow-up comments?

Submit the word you see below:


Next entry: The devil is in the details

Previous entry: Sunshine on unions