This evening I went to my kids' school to hear about their new points system for yr 10. This system is to be used to determine the "level" at which students graduate. It sounds weird and confusing and I am not sure that any of the (I estimate) 50+ parents attending the meeting were entirely happy or totally understood the system. I expect it would have helped if they had used a focus group to gauge the support material they needed to present this evening.
I entered the evening thinking I mostly understood the system but left feeling confused and a quite upset about how it is being handled. I think that the system should not be used for the current yr 10 cohort as the information to date has been sketchy and appears to not have had any parent consultation. A better approach would be to advise the current yr 9 group that at the end of next year they will graduate with this system, not pro rata this year's yr 10 with a system that still has bugs to be ironed out.
I believe that if I wanted to present parents with a proposal such as this, my boss would delay the presentation until it was more thoroughly covered and supported with easy to understand support material/handouts.
In all, after a long day at work, I walked away from the evening feeling confused.
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