The student organization is concerned that the exams held this spring will have serious consequences.
On Wednesday, Education Minister Guri Melby will meet with student and teacher organizations to discuss the possibility of canceling written exams in primary and secondary schools.
"Now it is Guri Melby's responsibility to cancel the exam, which students have been asking for months," says Vice Principal Frida Hagen of the student organization.
The student organization collected 70 signatures from students wishing to cancel their exam.
- Now is the time for it to actually happen, says Hagen.
Home education
Both student and teacher organizations are demanding that spring exams be canceled. The Education Directorate recommended the same as the teaching base has been very variable over the past year.
- Home schooling, and sometimes even physical education, weren't as good as we deserve. "It's not fair," says Hagen.
He says students talk about teachers who struggle to make teaching good, but that applies to everyone.
Record number of students in vocational schools
– There are also many who talk about one-way teaching, teachers who just put a camera in front of the board and have no never having the sound on, and that the physical teaching is sometimes so bad that you feel like going home straight away. He says and continues:
- The same class that sits in two different classrooms with the same teacher walking between them and recording a video is not teaching well enough for us to take an exam.
. Knowledge gap
The student organization is concerned that this could have serious consequences if it is necessary to pass the exam this spring.
"Then I think there are a great many students who will have to apply for higher education with lower competences and most likely will not be able to complete their studies - if they ever graduate from upper secondary education at all," says Hagen.
To avoid any gaps in knowledge after the past year, the Student Organization believes it is important to repeat the teaching well.
- I think there will be a lot of people who will be sitting until fall and they don't know what they should know this spring. Then there must be a consistent collaboration between the school and the student in finding ways to fulfill them. It says it will be individual for each student.
Now he hopes the government will listen to the students.
"We hope the government and the Education Directorate really listened to us in a lot of activities, but when it comes to the casual learner sitting in the classroom, we need a lot, a lot more integration," he says.