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In early last year when grade 13 was omitted from the curriculum a literacy test was implemented for grade 10 students to evaluate their ability to read and write. This literacy test has been the most controversial issue to hit the education board since the lack of funding for extra curricular activities. This issue has brought hard aches to students, parents, and even teachers. Students are thrown in to making the decision of what they are planning on doing with the rest of their lives before they even have the chance to grow up and experience what real education is like. Within their first year of secondary education children have to make the drastic decision of deciding whether university is for them, or should they just jump into the working force. Yet a drastic problem has arisen. So many students who written the literacy test have failed, leaving them without a chance of obtaining a high school diploma. The Toronto Star brought about a clear point retaining to the failure of this test, how can someone who fails this test and doesn't obtain a diploma possibly go out there and get a job? Ontario's education minister Elizabeth Witmer has brought up the discussion of possibly implementing a secondary diploma for students who
9) So the main question is what do we do with all these failing students, what is a good plan to help the realize what is in store for them in the future. After reading these articles liberally, I have come to side with the Toronto Star rather then the National Post. This alternative diploma is branding the children, proving to everyone that they aren't the best readers, or they can't write as well as their peers. The correct way to achieve their results is to drop the five hour test and focus more on spending their money to insure that students get the correct amount of attention they need to get them through secondary education and into the real world to make their own decision on what their future has in store for them. While the National Post believes that all that is needed is to reflect on actions to progress the performance of students. With such a dramatic result of failures the education boards are confused as to what they should do with all these failing students. It may be easy for some people who are already employed and don't have to write this test to say that, this test is a great idea to show the ability of students, but they aren't realizing the ramifications that this test has on the failing students. They are not ready to understand the benefits of University or College and they are definitely not ready to see the possible outcome of not obtaining a high school diploma. The Toronto Star feels that by implementing a alternative diploma you are basically tattooing a big "I" on students heads identifying that they are illiterate and not capable of successfully completing such vigorous testing. Do you think it was fair when Jewish people during the holocaust had to wear a yellow band around their arm with a Star of David identifying their religion? Then I don't think it is fair that these young children have an alternative diploma that can effect the rest of their lives, because they aren't the best readers, or the best writers. Results of a reading and writing test can't show that a student doesn't have the ability to think critically or that they don't have the ability to stand in front of an audience and teach ideas that have been thought to them. Just because these students can not write a test to the best of their ability does not mean that they are illiterate, it just means that they are not the best at writing a test. Without a diploma what is truly in store for these young children?.
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