Teachers in New South Wales, are strongly opposed, (and I don't blame them), to a new mandatory system where for the first time reports will grade students on a scale of A to E.Nearly 11,000 teachers from 800 public schools have written to the Minister for Education, Carmel Tebbutt, saying they need more time to prepare the reports.
The teachers claim the idiotic A-to-E grading scale, will brand very young children a failure and alienate them from the education system.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the federation's president, Maree O'Halloran, said teachers had overwhelmingly rejected the reports mandated by state and federal governments.
Kindergarten pupils, those with significant learning disabilities and children with English as a second language would have written reports instead of a grade.
