School fires math teacher who adjusts final exams
The secondary school De Passie in Utrecht has fired a math teacher who adjusted answers in final exams after the students submitted the exam. It concerns a total of eight mathematics A exams by HAVO students.
“The teacher adjusted one assignment in the final exams,” says Gerard Toonen, director of the Passion school group for evangelical education with offices in Utrecht, Wierden and Rotterdam. Toonen received a message from the Education Inspectorate that the maths final exam had been tampered with. "They are engaged by the second corrector." Final exams are always marked by your own teacher and a second corrector.
Confess
After the message, the driver conducted an internal investigation. “The teacher immediately admitted that he had adjusted the answers himself,” says Toonen. “It was an experienced teacher. He wanted to help the students get a higher grade. ”
The amended statement has been declared invalid for the eight students. “Seven students passed and were allowed to take a re-exam, but will not do so,” Toonen explains. One student failed, but that was not due to the adjusted problem in his math exam.
Dismissal
The teacher was immediately fired by the school board. “This must not happen,” says Toonen. “I have never experienced this before. Previously, there were also no signals during school exams that this teacher adjusted the answers of students. ”
