Parties will revise the grading scale: A grade will be removed

The number 7 in the Danish education system should be removed.

This is what the Moderate Party and the Liberal Alliance say in Altinget (https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/efter-sommerferien-vil-regeringen-aendre-karakterskalaen-moderaterne-vil-helt-fjerne-7-som-karakter) and from Liberal Alliance, who support the proposal.

"We think that the gaps between grades are too large and skewed," says Liberal Alliance's Member of Parliament Alexander Ryle.

Concretely, the parties will divide the 7 into a 6 and an 8, so that it will be possible for teachers and censors to give a more precise assessment of a student's performance.

However, according to Liberal Alliance, it is not enough just to adjust in the middle of the grade scale.

The party also plans to reintroduce a way to honor the completely extraordinary performance at the top of the grade scale, and the party itself says that it lacks a grade such as the old 13.

It is far from the first time that the Danish grade scale is brought up for debate. Even then-education minister Tommy Ahlers (V) already in 2018 (https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/tommy-ahlers-aabner-diskussion-om-karakterskalaen-jeg-savner-13-tallet?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAjBFJoyzC7-NZTUT9JEFzeAZmTydkg6EVDu17f-MvZF83mjxK8yQyBOVbDsXgo%3D&gaa_ts=687605f8&gaa_sig=tZjLp_pPAOLTM0ubNnx5wULIJwxqIFYGHu_aOemPR1sFK4-frHysoGObpOOwLBjU5669uk5_1MGRgOgzGjwIIA%3D%3D) expressed that he dreamed of the return of the 13.

"I miss the opportunity to reward the completely extraordinary. When one goes one's own way, dares to take a chance and attacks a problem from a completely different angle," sounded from Ahlers.

The proposal has never become a reality, but the proposal to remove the 7 in favor of a 6 and 8 was in fact already on the table when the then S-government's expert council suggested it in 2020. Now the question is, if it will become a reality this time.

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