Newbie
Posts: 2 
Location: British Columbia
Location: British Columbia
August 10th, 2006, 02:35 PM
The battle against the British Columbia Graduation Portfolio is not over yet! Although the government has suspended the portfolio requirements for the 2006-2007 grade 12 students, the portfolio requirement is still mandatory for grade 10, 11 and future grade 12 students. We have to take a stand and keep on fighting until the government dumps this burdensome requirement for students. You can make a difference by signing the online petition and forward this website to your friends, classmates, and family members. We’ll send this petition to the Ministry of Education once we get 1000 (or more) signatures!
Note: A recent petition “Students Against BC Graduation Portfolio,” which too initially aimed at getting 1000 signatures, received more than 10000 signatures. It forced the Ministry to cancel the graduation portfolio requirements for the 2006-2007 grade 12 students. As the saying goes, “Strength in Numbers!”
The full online petition is at: http://www.petitiononline.com/waive/petition.html
The battle against the British Columbia Graduation Portfolio is not over yet! Although the government has suspended the portfolio requirements for the 2006-2007 grade 12 students, the portfolio requirement is still mandatory for grade 10, 11 and future grade 12 students. We have to take a stand and keep on fighting until the government dumps this burdensome requirement for students. You can make a difference by signing the online petition and forward this website to your friends, classmates, and family members. We’ll send this petition to the Ministry of Education once we get 1000 (or more) signatures!
Note: A recent petition “Students Against BC Graduation Portfolio,” which too initially aimed at getting 1000 signatures, received more than 10000 signatures. It forced the Ministry to cancel the graduation portfolio requirements for the 2006-2007 grade 12 students. As the saying goes, “Strength in Numbers!”
The full online petition is at: http://www.petitiononline.com/waive/petition.html
Newbie
Posts: 2
Location: British Columbia
Location: British Columbia
August 10th, 2006, 04:38 PM
For more regarding the B.C. portfolio:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/graduation...olio_p1_p2.pdf
For more regarding the CAS component in IB:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativ...ion%2C_Service
Quoting
The B.C. graduation portfolio is more than just completing hours of volunteer and physical activities. It's a lot of paperwork-- reflections, documentation, collection of evidence, etc. The problem is, IB students have enough on their hands, with the 150 hours of CAS, extended essays, internal/ external assessments, exams deadlines... they won't have time for the graduation portfolio. I hope everyone can help us out and sign the petition + forward it to your contacts!
What is the Graduation Profile? Is it in any way comparable to the 40 hours of community service that highschool students in Ontario (including IB students I believe) are required to complete in order to graduate?
For more regarding the B.C. portfolio:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/graduation...olio_p1_p2.pdf
For more regarding the CAS component in IB:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativ...ion%2C_Service
