Starting this school year, it will be a little harder for public school students to earn an A. From now on, 
they will have to earn a 90 percent or above for the mark, Education and Culture Minister Myron Walwyn announced during the Professional Development Day for Educators on Monday at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium.
Mr. Walwyn also laid out other plans for the coming school year. The new territorial song, he said, will be sung in each school during assembly, and there will be flagpoles erected for the Virgin Islands flag and the Union Jack, according to the minister.
Meanwhile, the territory’s school-leaving examinations will no longer be the main requirement for high school graduation, he added: Instead, each student will be required to sit for Caribbean Examinations Council tests.
See the Aug. 30, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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