Grade Inflation

Watching CBC News and it reports that in Toronto, Ontario's teachers are meeting to try to come up with solutions to prevent Grade Inflation. Good for them! However, I think a key point is responsibility: from teachers and principles (whom are responsible for ensuring that students are assigned grades they have earned) and parents that need to realize that understanding the material leads to better grades as well as that their children should earn their grades and not because parents make complaints.

I am in all support for creation of programs such a tutoring programs that students will be referred to, by teachers, to help students understand the material better (and even to the point that if these programs are open to all students, not just those that are referred by teachers) to allow students to re-challenge exams and assignments at no grade penalty (a limit of one re-challenged as well I would suggest the re-challenged is marked by someone other than the original teacher/marker and that the student’s identity is kept confidential and that the two teachers/markers are unaware of whom each other are).

Furthermore, if teachers are feeling pressured into Grade Inflation I would suggest if they want to be considered professionals then they do not grade inflate (as much people may pester them into doing so); as well, teachers should be more readily reprimanded for Grade Inflation then they already are. Similarly there should be an increase in consequences for principals and others whom try to pressure teachers into Grade Inflation and a reporting method for teachers whom feel they have been pressured.