Amélie Bérubé is far from the only student failed despite his good performance during the school year because of a change in grades. The newspaper received several emails from parents on Wednesday denouncing the same situation.
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Raphaël Senécal, a fourth-grade student from Montreal’s South Shore, had a 75% in science at the end of the year before taking the ministerial test, which he failed with a 46%.
His school grade was then “mediocre” at 48%, so that he failed the course with a final grade of 58%.
His father also duplicated steps with the service to try to understand what had happened.
“My son finds it difficult to accept. He lost concentration for two hours once a year, and here he is forced to do summer courses,” he says.
Mr Senécal understands the importance of equity in the school network, but wonders why the training provided by teachers is not formally evaluated during the school year, instead of making a purely statistical judgment based on the results of the ministerial tests.
“I can’t believe it fell on the children’s playground,” he said.
A big impact
Other parents have also told us that their teen has suffered a drop in school grades of more than fifteen points following the moderation process this year.
For some, the impact is huge. Véronique Lajoie’s daughter’s access to the CEGEP is in jeopardy because she failed her French course, which she believed was on the way to success.
A parent spoken to by Le Journal, who declined to be identified, also regrets that no special circumstances are taken into account during the ministry’s moderation process.
His boy’s fifth-grade French grade was dropped by 18 points, while this group of students was entitled to three different teachers during the school year, he points out.
