Grade 12 students worried about university applications
Posted September 5, 2014 9:27 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Not all teenagers are happy about not having to attend classes during the teachers’ dispute.
Salice Kale, a Grade 12 student at Burnaby South Secondary, fears if the strike continues she won’t get the grades she’s been working a long time for.
“I’m really worried about my UBC application because we have to enter our marks by December 10 in order to qualify for a scholarship, and if I don’t have any marks, I don’t know what students are supposed to tell the universities they are applying to,” she says.
Her anxiety is compounded because teachers walked out before some of the tests were marked.
“I took honours classes in Grade 9, planning to go to university. And now, years after I worked so hard in my honours classes and in Grade 11, I can’t even use the marks I worked so hard for.”
A number of her friends are in the same position, and she says it is not fair to have the pressures of uncertainty rest on the shoulders of the students.
