Post-secondary Students lack basic literacy skills in Ontario

We don’t need a newspaper to tell us this.  We see it every day.  We see it across our various company services.  We deal with students daily, and with every passing day we are more and more frightened and frustrated by the education they are receiving.

At the high school level we deal mostly with parents.  And when we often have to deal with the kids themselves, we think “it’s ok, they still have time”.

It gets scary when we are dealing with University and College students.  We are dealing with them directly.  They are contacting us for help. They are students currently in the post secondary system in schools across Canada.  And we talk with them, and we communicate in writing with them, and we do business with them.  And time and time again we are just shocked… how did these kids get into these schools.  And the biggest problem we see is out of our Ontario clients.  Kids that are graduating out of school boards in Ontario who can barely write a coherent sentence.  But they got into schools such as York University, Ryerson or the University of Toronto.  We see that they have no analytical skills, no reasoning.  We see that they can’t spell, and their grammar is lacking.

Being in the education business for over 12 years we are on the front lines, and we have seen it all.  We could provide a full report of what the weak spots are, what the worst school boards are, which students are struggling the most.

We know which school board produces the worst student achievement, and are graduating the most incompetent students.

The school boards and the school system is failing students.

We here at LearnOn tutoring are thinking of developing a blog series about it.

We are not involved with the teachers, the unions or the government.  We are unbiased to any groups.  We just see the results.  And they are scary!