Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday I rose on the issue of education and asked the Minister a few questions about the numbers we receive when it comes to the quality or grade our children are in. Mr. Speaker, I am still concerned with the lack of information. Again yesterday, I raised a question about children in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Is there any requirement to achieve a certain mark in that class before they go on? The Minister stated there was some testing done, but he wasn't too specific as to what areas that would be in.

Mr. Speaker, I raise this because as a parent -- and many parents probably find themselves in the same situation -- when we put our children in school, unless you receive a call from the school to say that your child is in trouble or has been in trouble with other students or a teacher in the school, you seem to think everything is going quite well. When the child comes home with a report card that says they are doing satisfactory, you think they are doing pretty good and achieving. It's not until later on in life when that child goes into, say, Grade 10, when marks start to count for something or when they are starting to prepare themselves for university or college, that we start to find out that they don't have the entry requirements for a college or university program because they have sailed along in the system with not too many worries. They are achieving according to the standards we put in place. Mr. Speaker, we need to look at what we have in place to see if our children are getting quality education and not just quantity. So I will have appropriate questions for the Minister later. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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