A high school teacher is calling for the “no-zero” grading policy to be abolished in Canadian schools, saying controversial method lacks credibility.
Refusing to follow the policy led to the suspension of an Alberta teacher in May.
In a scathing report released this week by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Michael Zwaagstra, a public school teacher in rural Manitoba, criticizes the no-zero policy and the lack of evidence to support its use in schools.
“I'd read the writings of people who advocate for no-zero policies and found that they were very weak and didn’t have any substantive evidence,” says Zwaagstra, also an education researcher and author.
