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School: stop with grades below 4, 70% of teachers disagree

1/31/2023, 5:05:41 PM


Two teachers out of three do not agree with the proposal not to assign grades lower than four on the report card: they do not consider it an educational practice. (HANDLE)

 Two teachers out of three do not agree with the proposal not to assign grades lower than four on the report card: they do not consider it an educational practice.

This is what emerged from the latest survey by the Tecnica della Scuola, proposed to better understand what insiders think about the initiative carried out by the provincial councilor for the German-language school in South Tyrol, Philipp Achammer.


    Just under a thousand readers participated in the responses to the survey: mostly teachers had their say (73.8% of the responses), while 14.5% were parents, 9.2% school administrators and the rest belonging to the "other" category. " made up of students, ATA staff and non-expert readers.

Among the teachers, 70% did not agree with the proposal.


    Among the parents, school administrators and all the others who took part in the survey, there was greater uncertainty: in fact, approximately 50% of the participants said they were not in favor of not assigning grades lower than four.


    Many of the survey participants gave reasons for their 'no' to the proposal.

Finally, there were many favorable comments, also for the cancellation of the vote in general.