Originally posted by bertwert There was a recent curriculum change here in British Columbia, which I thankfully graduated before it was fully implemented, and within it, they changed the maths standardised testing (got rid of it...) and replaced it with a 'numeracy' test, which looking through practice booklets is more common sense than even basic maths. The Ministry of Education states that they want everyone to graduate with a very basic grade nine level of maths (which here is not much more than addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and very basic exponents). I had to laugh when they wrote a public letter stating that "BC has a world-leading education system"...
I dropped out of high school twice, started college at 15, then dropped out of college at 17 to go to work.
Still, I am certain my educational and intellectual skill levels are far and above that of my recently graduated grandson. The boy is 19 now, has a high school diploma, and (so far) one quarter of community college. He wants to go into the Army Reserves, but failed the intitial entrance test. A very basic test, designed to assess basic information intelligence and reasoning, I breezed right through the online practice test without studying.
The grandson failed after weeks of studying, and did so poorly on the real test at the recruitment office they sent him away.
So much for a high school education, eh?