Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, following up on my earlier questions. I indicated earlier the department has a policy to promote students, I heard from the Minister, from one grade to the next before they are ready.

Grade 10 seems to be a wall that they hit and drop out. The Minister indicated that the curriculum taught across the Territories is the same. Why is that when students come to Yellowknife, whether it is in grade 3 or grade 10, they always have to go back a few grades?

I would like to ask the Minister, what happens? Do they keep statistics on students who are going from the small communities to regional centres for high school on how many of those students have to go back to grade 9 to prepare themselves for grade 10, which takes an extra year? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.