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This report also found on government of BC website provides information on Intellectual Development, Humand and Social Development, and Career Development for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. What I like about it it also provides statistics pertaining the school concerning total number of students, amount of Aboriginal student and Students with Special Needs. Within the section Intellectual Development FSA results from grade 4 are compared with results in grade 7 which is also interesting. Another interesting observation is in a couple survey questions Aboriginal students felt school was preparing them post-secondary and a job in the future whereas non-Aboriginal respondents did not feel as strongly in this area. I wonder why?

Enhanced-School-District-Report-for-SD073

This report is a quick read and on the government website you can find other school districts if you are interested.  http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/reporting/systemperformance/

Aboriginal Report 2012/13 – 2016/17 How Are We Doing? School District 73

In my previous post I examined Aboriginal achievement for the province of BC whereas this report specially looks at SD #73, which is my school district. Once again this report can be found on the government of BC’s website.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/reports/ab-hawd/2016/ab-hawd-school-district-073.pdf

For my final project I will examine the material much more critically. This is a brief overview for those who are interested. The report like the Provincial report provides background information such as number of students in the public school system who identify as Aboriginal, male and femal aboriginal students, behavioural disabilities, etc. Data examined is obtained from standardized test; the Foundational Skills Assessment (FSAs), and required examinations. Similar to the provincial report Aboriginal students are lagging behind non-Aboriginal students in reading comprehension, writing and numeracy for both grade 4 and 7, with numeracy being an area of concern. And once again what is concering is the percentage of Aboriginal students who responded saying they feel they were more likely to be bullied, teased or picked on in the School Satisfication Surveys for grades 3/4 and grades 7.