May not always prevent students from exams
The school is the place where everyone should get the same. Children do not choose their parents and elementary schools should therefore act as a netting tool and be responsible for the progress of students in education.
This is stated by Jón Pétur Zimsen, MP for the Independence Party and former principal. He was a guest in daily affairs where a coordinated assessment and final assessment in compulsory schools was under discussion.
A bill on the new assessment career is now being dealt with by the Assembly.
Jón Pétur does not consider the assessment uniform and calls for new coordinated survey exams instead of the assessment history. He also considers it important to introduce final exams from compulsory schools.
Have to work with anxiety
« If we are always going to keep people from what is difficult or anxious, then it will never be able to deal with anything after elementary school. No setbacks of any kind, » says Jón Peter asked if exams or illness cannot distort the image only to look at students’ performance.
He says anxiety is not insurmountable, on the other hand, it needs to work systematically with him if people want to succeed.
« If you are badly called every day or sick, then there will be a medical exam. »
« If we are always going to keep people from what is difficult or anxious, then it will never be able to deal with anything after elementary school. No setbacks of any kind, » says Jón Peter
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Not the largest judgment in the world
He then points out that the co -ordinated exams are primarily to look at students’ progress.
« You also have to realize that this is not the biggest judgment in the world, but it is good for everyone, and let alone the municipalities and parents, to see where the children stand compared to others in the country.
If you have no criteria for it – real, fair, fair criteria, then it is so difficult to understand where the child stands and where it should then continue based on the position it shows in such a uniform exam. «
Children do not choose their parents
Jón Pétur says elementary school should be a equalizer and is responsible for children’s progress.
« The children do not choose their parents. They can be all kinds of parents. The situation – social or financial, can be tremendously uneven and how to keep track of the children. Money does not always help there, » he says, adding:
« The parents can be very rich but always work and never anything with the child. The school is really the place where everyone should get the same, or we meet people. We should then look at the child’s progress. »
