The parents want the notes have less weight to … – TF1

It’s not just the notes in life. It is, in other words, that a large majority of parents want for their children in school. According to a survey Opinion Way released Tuesday by the association of parents of pupils Private call, 73% of parents and support a reduction in the weight of the notes in the assessment of students.
reform student assessment, sensitive subject, is a government site started by Vincent Peillon then taken by his successors. Last June, Benoît Hamon launched a national conference on student assessment. The national conference will present its recommendations in mid-December. Nearly nine in ten parents (87%) whose children are enrolled in ZEP want a decline in the importance of notes, highlights the survey.

Deprived facing a bad note

More than half (56%) of parents feel unprepared for a bad grade, they are not always able to decipher and say “not knowing what points (the program) should be reworked after a bad note.” This proportion rises to 74% of parents of students in college, 73% of parents of children enrolled in PTA and 63% of the families of students enrolled in private schools. About 90% of parents say they are also “worried” facing a bad mark (98% of parents of pupils in ZEP). They are also about three four parents to judge it “undermines self-esteem,” she “gives the feeling that the student is bad” or that it “discourages students.”

Minister of the Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said Saturday that the assessment “not rest (any) today no scientific basis. ” She had wished in October that the new assessment “encourages” students “to learn and progress.” The debate should not be “caricatured” she said, hoping that does not make him a “lax planning to trial.” The note will be maintained, had assured his predecessor Benoît Hamon. He said he was in favor of a notation “more benign”, provoking criticism from the right lambasting the “decay” of Education.

The survey was conducted from a sample of 596 parents of children in school, from a sample of 2,025 people representative of the French population aged 18 years and over . The sample was interviewed online and in the field in late October.

VIDEO. The reaction of the Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the disappearance of the notes.

VIDEO. The notation old she will disappear in schools