Traboulsi on Official Exams: "Some with Butter, Some with Oil"

MP Edgar Traboulsi, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Education Committee, stated regarding the Baccalaureate certificate exams that "it is unacceptable to have two exams (over 3 sessions) dividing Lebanese students into two categories, first and second, and 'some with butter and some with oil,' where there is no equality, no justice."

He pointed out that "at a time when France canceled the Brevet and French Baccalaureate exams in a number of Levant countries, including Lebanon, and the Gulf for realistic and understandable reasons, we did well by adopting school grades for the Brevet. But if we are being stubborn and think we can conduct a Baccalaureate exam, it must be unified, with optional subjects and questions, allowing all students in all regions to take the exam according to what their schools have covered of the curriculum."

He asked: "What will the Ministry of Education do if the war does not allow it to hold even one exam session, or it holds one, and fails to hold the second and third... then what have we done? Perhaps we should adopt France's option of relying on school exams and the average of grades for passing, thereby avoiding giving 'certificates' and achieving educational justice for all."

He concluded by reminding that "universities in Lebanon and abroad no longer care about a single official exam grade; they ask the student for his grade file over the 3 years of secondary school."