BC Students Receive Blank Report Cards
BY SAMEER VASTA
As the labor dispute between the British Columbia teachers and the province continues some BC students may be going home with blank report cards. Teachers are refusing to write report cards but the province is reassuring parent s that they are still able to know how their children are doing in school. Parents can be in contact with teachers through email, and phone calls and other means of communication.
Some say that report cards are not an accurate way of documenting a student’s progress. Report cards are distributed three times a year; an appropriate way to document how a student is doing would be a “regularly updated website with milestones, attendance, performance” etc. If teachers are still communicating with parents and the students are aware how they are doing in class, there may be no need for report cards.
Personally, I think that report cards are an assurance that you are doing well or not. They can be a wake-up-call for some, or a bit of confidence that your hard work is paying off. I think especially for grade 12 students, report cards are absolutely needed. The marks on the report card are used for post-secondary applications and scholarship applications. For primary students the idea of a website with the students’ performance is a good idea but report cards should be mandatory for the senior grade of high school.
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