Ontario is cutting out its fall report card for Elementary students, in the latest move against marking children early and on a rigid scale of letters or numbers.
Instead, educators will be looking at new ways to evaluate students.
Bluewater District School Board Director of Education Mary Anne Alton feels it is a positive step.
Alton says instead of report cards 3 times a year, students will get an informal progress report in the fall, and report cards in January and June.
The Bluewater Director of Education says it is the same system that they had in the Grey County board of education before amalgamation and parents like it.
Ontario’s teachers’ unions have pushed for the elimination of the fall report card which they say comes too early in the school year for teachers to make useful judgments.
Annie Kidder, of People for Education, says she is concerned if dropping the fall report card means parents aren’t kept in the loop.
However, Alton says parents will be kept in the loop on the progess of their children, and will actually be getting feedback earlier in the school year under the new system.
The change which will see the fall report card axed for elementary students across Ontario will come into effect next September.