The consequences of being revealed
Students in the 7th grade Breiðholtsskóli are much worse off than their peers did five years ago. The biggest difference is in Icelandic, but their performance in mathematics is also significantly poorer than their peers’ performance in 2020.
These show the results of tests presented to the cohort in March, at the request of parents of students in light of the extraordinary situation that has prevailed within the school walls and Morgunblaðið reported earlier this year.
The results stand out of
Students’ performance in Breiðholtsskóli since the turn of the century has usually been around the national average. On the other hand, the latest results are considered to be over the entire period, according to a report by the not public education authorities.
This is the first time that light has been shed on how sustained violent problems within the school, which the City of Education authorities have found little to be found before being exposed to it on the pages of Morgunblaðið and mbl.is, has bitten the students of the cohort.
A number of actions have been taken.
The learning capacity of Icelandic children is free in international comparisons. The government has in no way responded to this development.
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Still waiting for controversial successors
One of the reasons why the students’ position is first explained now is that no comprehensive national coordinated assessment has been made for the study capacity of Icelandic children for several years, or since Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, the then Minister of Education, decided to postpone the uniform examinations in 2021.
Her party brother, Ásmundur Einar Daðason, maintained the suspension all his ministerial time and actually wanted to abolish the exams. The controversial successor to the survey tests, the so -called assessment curve, has not yet fully seen the light of day.
However, tests have begun, but its introduction was accelerated following the discussion of Morgunblaðið and mbl.is last year.
Seized an old test
Finally, the City of Reykjavik and the Ministry of Education and Children’s Affairs decided to take old coordinated examinations, from 2019 and 2020, when the pressure and position of the children in Breiðholtsskóli were examined.
The exam was study material for the past three years, but it should be noted that the children were specially prepared for the exams.
Likewise, it should be noted that the results do not necessarily have to reflect solely the development for the worse within the walls of Breiðholtsskóli.
The learning capacity of Icelandic children is free in international comparisons, as the results of the PISA polls have shown, most recently in December 2023.
Then the team is almost half a year. And yet the government has not responded.
