When news broke this week about the FBI’s “Operation Varsity Blues” roundup of accused fraudsters, Canada was given an opportunity to enjoy its eternal pastime of having a chuckle at the expense of the United States. The chuckle is well justified.
Mark Riddell is also accused of having substituted for Dylan Sidoo in the nonexistent “Canadian high school graduation exam” in 2012; the idea seems to be that he infiltrated a B.C. provincial exam for Grade 12 students. Dylan Sidoo was a student at the St. George’s independent school in Vancouver, whose representatives told the Province’s Nick Eagland that the school didn’t conduct provincials on the date mentioned in the indictment. But B.C.
We also don’t make much use of standardized testing in university admissions. We are departing somewhat from even the vestigial talent-testing elements of education that we do have: B.C. is simplifying those provincial tests and decoupling them from Grade 12 marks, and Alberta has downweighted its high school “diploma exams.” But this may obviously leave people like David Sidoo looking elsewhere, i.e., south, for elite credentials and social networking benefits.
That may not be easy in a public school, since these places are known to be run exclusively by saints, but rich parents have alternatives. “Independent schools,” maybe, such as St. George’s. And, of course, the identity of an applicant’s school may itself come into the admissions equation. We don’t have elite universities in Canada, but I am told some provinces have posh, exclusive, famous private secondary schools.
I thought they pretended to be rowers not cheerleaders
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