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In early last year when grade 13 was omitted from the curriculum a literacy test was implemented for grade 10 students to evaluate their ability to read and write. This literacy test has been the most controversial issue to hit the education board since the lack of funding for extra curricular activities. This issue has brought hard aches to students, parents, and even teachers. Students are thrown in to making the decision of what they are planning on doing with the rest of their lives before they even have the chance to grow up and experience what real education is like. Within their first year of secondary education children have to make the drastic decision of deciding whether university is for them, or should they just jump into the working force. Yet a drastic problem has arisen. So many students who written the literacy test have failed, leaving them without a chance of obtaining a high school diploma. The Toronto Star brought about a clear point retaining to the failure of this test, how can someone who fails this test and doesn’t obtain a diploma possibly go out there and get a job? Ontario’s education minister Elizabeth Witmer has brought up the discussion of possibly implementing a secondary diploma for students who
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Approximate Word count = 1161
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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