Thank you, Madam Chair. I think Mr. Pokiak is talking about two different issues. One of the issues is whether or not children are all at the same grade level if they're in the same grade. It's not uncommon that you have differences. For instance, in a Grade 4 classroom you will have some children who are reading at a Grade 2 level and you may have some children who are reading at a Grade 6 level. The teachers can typically deal with the different groups they have. Some kids will need extra help and some kids will need extra challenge. So it isn't unusual to have in a classroom a variation in terms of what the kids are doing and at what levels they are achieving. But if a person passes a Math 30 or a Math 31 course in the Northwest Territories, they are passing the same test as given to kids in Alberta. So if they achieve that at graduation, that means that they have achieved the same level.

What is often happening is that in our smaller communities the range of programs that we can offer, the courses, are not as great as in the larger communities. So young people who graduate may not have the courses they need to get into the post-secondary area of study that they want to go into. That is an ongoing challenge for us, and it is one that in the smaller schools is problematic. I have discussed this issue with the chairs of all of the divisional education councils. It was one of the issues that came up for discussion when we had meetings here on February 24th and 25th this year, and it is an area that we have agreed we need to find some way to work at improving the range of courses that we can offer in the smaller schools. So it is something that we're going to try and work on. I don't have an answer for how we're going to do that yet, to give the Member. Thank you, Madam Chair.