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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has announced that elementary school students will be able to see their final marks.
In a news release late Tuesday, the board announced that it is now designing a process that would all students, or their parents, to see the final marks that have been submitted by elementary school teachers, now on a work-to-rule campaign.
As part of that campaign, teachers have refused to enter the final marks on the board’s computerized data system, or to prepare final report cards. Instead, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has instructed its 76,000 members to turn over a class list, with grades attached.
Board spokesperson Sharlene Hunter said the board’s new process for sharing the final marks of students in JK to Grade 7 will be announced Monday.
The move follows a similar announcement by the Toronto District School Board. Many parents had called the Ottawa board to complain about the situation.
Earlier this week, Ottawa’s public board appealed for “patience” as it tried to understand what kind of format teachers would be using to submit final marks and whether that information could be shared with the parents of the 43,000 children in JK-Grade 7.
In an interview Monday, school board director Jennifer Adams said the work-to-rule campaign by teachers had forced the board to prioritize the preparation of report cards for the city’s elementary and high school students.
The board committed to producing report cards for students in Grades 8 to 12, but it said the other students might not receive any final marks.
“We have 300 people doing the work that normally 4,600 people do,” Adams said.
ETFO President Sam Hammond, however, insisted that boards like Ottawa should be able to produce basic report cards for all students since teachers have been directed by the union to hand in their class lists with final marks attached to each name. Processing that information is time-consuming, he said, but not difficult.
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Smaller boards in Ontario where teachers have withdrawn services have managed to produce report cards, Hammond said, and he argued there’s no reason that students from bigger boards should be deprived of their marks.
School boards in Windsor, Niagara, Hamilton-Wentworth and Simcoe County have committed to issuing report cards for all of their elementary school students.
“I can’t speak to why other boards are not putting them out, but it’s puzzling for sure that some can and some can’t,” Hammond said earlier this week. “It (Ottawa) is a larger board, absolutely, but proportionally, they have the same sort of administrative staff that other boards have.”
At the time, however, Adams said the amount of data entry is simply beyond the school board’s capacity since full report cards demand the completion of 1.3 million data points.
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In a news release late Tuesday, the board announced that it is now designing a process that would all students, or their parents, to see the final marks that have been submitted by elementary school teachers, now on a work-to-rule campaign.
As part of that campaign, teachers have refused to enter the final marks on the board’s computerized data system, or to prepare final report cards. Instead, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has instructed its 76,000 members to turn over a class list, with grades attached.
Board spokesperson Sharlene Hunter said the board’s new process for sharing the final marks of students in JK to Grade 7 will be announced Monday.
The move follows a similar announcement by the Toronto District School Board. Many parents had called the Ottawa board to complain about the situation.
Earlier this week, Ottawa’s public board appealed for “patience” as it tried to understand what kind of format teachers would be using to submit final marks and whether that information could be shared with the parents of the 43,000 children in JK-Grade 7.
In an interview Monday, school board director Jennifer Adams said the work-to-rule campaign by teachers had forced the board to prioritize the preparation of report cards for the city’s elementary and high school students.
The board committed to producing report cards for students in Grades 8 to 12, but it said the other students might not receive any final marks.
“We have 300 people doing the work that normally 4,600 people do,” Adams said.
ETFO President Sam Hammond, however, insisted that boards like Ottawa should be able to produce basic report cards for all students since teachers have been directed by the union to hand in their class lists with final marks attached to each name. Processing that information is time-consuming, he said, but not difficult.
Related
Smaller boards in Ontario where teachers have withdrawn services have managed to produce report cards, Hammond said, and he argued there’s no reason that students from bigger boards should be deprived of their marks.
School boards in Windsor, Niagara, Hamilton-Wentworth and Simcoe County have committed to issuing report cards for all of their elementary school students.
“I can’t speak to why other boards are not putting them out, but it’s puzzling for sure that some can and some can’t,” Hammond said earlier this week. “It (Ottawa) is a larger board, absolutely, but proportionally, they have the same sort of administrative staff that other boards have.”
At the time, however, Adams said the amount of data entry is simply beyond the school board’s capacity since full report cards demand the completion of 1.3 million data points.
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