Students at a Toronto elementary school are protesting after the Toronto District School Board said they would not be sending out report cards at the end of the school year.

On Friday morning, dozens of kids gathered at Glenview Senior Public School to express their displeasure with the recent news.

“I think it is really unfair that we are not getting report cards because we have worked really hard for them after hours, after school. We want to know how we are progressing, how we are doing and we don’t think it is fair that we are not getting marked on the projects that we are doing,” one Grade 7 student told CP24.

In a news release sent out Thursday, the TDSB confirmed that students at Toronto public elementary schools would be receiving a placement letter instead of a report card. The board said that the production of report cards requires teachers to electronically input data, something teachers are refusing to do as part of the province-wide work-to-rule action.

The placement letters, which will be sent out at schools across the TDSB during the week of June 22, will let students know whether they are moving on to the next grade but will not provide final marks.

TDSB spokesperson Shari Schwartz-Maltz told CP24 Friday that she was “proud” of the students for speaking out on the issue.

“They obviously have a lot of passion. They are allowed to articulate their feelings,” she said.

Schwartz-Maltz said that the board wishes it was possible to give students report cards at the end of the year.

“Unfortunately we have 170,000 elementary students and normally the data input is done by our 10,000 teachers. It is just impossible for us to be able to enter that data maintaining the integrity of confidentiality of their information,” she said.

Both the Peel and York district school boards will also be sending out letters in lieu of report cards.

The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario says teachers are fulfilling their responsibility to provide marks to their respective principals.

"There is no clear explanation as to why school boards like Toronto, Peel and York Region can’t issue report cards as other boards are doing. These boards may be larger but they have proportionately as many administrators within their system to handle the task of issuing report cards," ETFO President Sam Hammond said in a written statement released Friday.

“All school boards have known for more than a month that ETFO’s work-to-rule action would affect the formal report card process. They have had ample time to prepare."