Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when this government introduced the grade extension policy, only 45 percent of those young people who were of high school age were attending high school. That meant that 55 percent of our youth had no chance of post-secondary education. Today, Mr. Speaker, we have 85 percent of our youth in high school. We have had more graduates this year than any other year in history. I would argue that the bottleneck has been all along that we could not get students to complete high school. We do have problems with student success at post-secondary institutions, but it is no where near the problems we have had with students in secondary institutions. I would say that we are dealing with the biggest bottleneck by getting young people to attend high school. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Charles Dent on Question 90-13(6): Grade Extension Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on September 22nd, 1998. See this statement in context.
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