Tenth grade

The province introduced new math curriculum six years ago, and it included financial literacy concepts in grades one through eight.

Now the province is introducing a test in grade 10 to make sure that knowledge sticks.

What do students think?

I think it's good, as there's a lot of problems with saving.

So that's what we're seeing right now.

And so we see the school boards, uh, sort of introducing this test.

The, uh, new curriculum for the last six years has included some financial literacy from grade, uh, one through eight, and now they're gonna be testing in grade 10.

And some people might be wondering, like, what's the role of parents here and, uh, whether some of the...

And I, you know, they've always been aware and they've always been afraid of it coming back because they've had friends' mothers die of breast cancer.

You know, my eldest, when she was maybe in grade 10, her friend's mother died and she had beat it and then it came back and she died.

And Gwen was, we were just sitting at dinner and she started to cry and she said, promise me it won't come back.

And I said, I can't, but I can promise you I'll do everything to make sure it doesn't, to try and prevent it from coming back.

This was after school.

Um, subsequently, um, it, it occupied so much of my life that once I got into 10th grade I had had enough of school, and, uh, uh, unbeknownst to my parents, I went into school one day and I signed myself out and officially dropped out of high school.

10th grade?

10th grade, which, I don't know if you could still do that, but you were able to do it back then, and you're certainly able to do it in Far Rockaway.

So, uh, from, uh, then I started doing body work full-time.

One of the body shops I had worked for, they started buying used cars and putting them out in the lot.

Clary, I just want to put this out there and hear what the listeners have to say.

Clary, learners who attend Elson schools like Batavia and Westcliff and also schools for skills, their school career ends in grade 10. but 99% of job adverts for school leavers require grade 12.

Now, is this not unfair on these learners? What will happen to them after grade 10? Clary, in my opinion, these learners will be used by employers and abused because they have the skills but they don't have the proper qualifications to become artisans.

I don't think necessarily that's a question for Phil, and that's a general question.

And maybe you have a response for Errol.

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Yeah, schooling was P to 10, preschool to grade 10 in Wilmera.

Yeah, right.

And I mean, if I'm true to myself, 40-something years later, I was good at school, but I hated it.

You know, A's and B's in all my subjects, you know, all the way through to grade 10.

Yeah.

But if there was assignment due on Monday afternoon...

Yeah, because we still think mums aren't real smart.

and that's where we discuss the legislative process.

I would say it's analogous to the civics course that we take in Grade 10 here in Ontario, where we're basically just trying to explain the functions of government, how Parliament works, and giving them some context for what's happening upstairs.

When they're delivering these bills upstairs in the chamber, they may not realize what it is that they're doing.

And then in class, we can kind of unpack first reading, second reading, seeing royal assent and then learning about it.

Actually, my

first song that I ever written was actually in grade 10.

And when I actually just like played it to people and they're like oh my goodness you're actually good in this and I think actually there I stopped like only covering songs and actually like experiencing and going into like writing things and like exploring that.

And I feel anybody can write and everybody can, because there's always a market.