Be noticed at school? “Discouraging” consider parents – Europe.1

Europe 1 Alcyone Wemaere with AFP Posted at 13:04, 18 November 2014 , Modified 15:00, 18 November 2014

Repetition will soon be a bad memory for French students (photo illustration ). © MAXPPP

Alcyone Wemaere with AFP

The grades in school? 73% of parents would prefer them to be less important in assessing the curriculum according to a survey released Tuesday by OpinionWay association of parents of private Apel. An even more pronounced among parents whose children are enrolled in PTA (87%) preference.

The poor parents face a score penalty. More than half (56%) of parents feel unprepared for a bad grade, they are not always able to decipher, and say “do not know what aspects of the program should be to rework after bad note. ” This proportion rises to 74% of parents in college, 73% of children enrolled in PTA parents and 63% of students enrolled in private families.

About 90% of Parents also say “worried” face a failing grade (98% of student parents PTA).

The perceived as discouraging notation. Parents are also about three out of four to judge it “undermines self-esteem,” she “gives the impression that the student is bad” or that it “discourages students.”

The notation debate rue de Grenelle. The Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Friday visited the College of Vic-Fezensac adept evaluation without notes. As in other institutions who experience this device, the pupils are assigned colors (from green to red) depending on their skills. Sign that the debate is open rue de Grenelle, the minister said the next day that the current assessment “today was not based on any scientific basis.” She had desired in October that the new evaluation “encourages” students “to learn and grow.” The debate should not be “caricatured,” she said, hoping that does not make him “an intent lax trial.”

The rating will be maintained, had assured his predecessor Benedict Hamon. He said he was in favor of a “more benign” notation, causing criticism from right lambasting the “decay” of Education.

The survey was carried out from ‘ a sample of 596 parents of school children, from a sample of 2,025 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over. The sample was interviewed online and on the ground in late October.