Failed an SOL

[Anonymous]

My 8th grader just found out she did not pass one of her SOL exams. It is not for one of her high school credit classes, but a normal middle school class. She got 390 - and is really upset about it. I told her she could retake it, if she wanted, but she is so down on herself right now.

[Anonymous]

My kid did the same in Math one year, took a remediation course and passed it easy. Later got a 760 on the math SAT. Bad teacher that one year, nothing to do with the kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid did the same in Math one year, took a remediation course and passed it easy. Later got a 760 on the math SAT. Bad teacher that one year, nothing to do with the kid.

Did you do the remediation course for a middle school class or high school? She was so close to passing. Personally, I wouldn't care but she says you need to pass a certain amount of SOLs to graduate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid did the same in Math one year, took a remediation course and passed it easy. Later got a 760 on the math SAT. Bad teacher that one year, nothing to do with the kid.

Did you do the remediation course for a middle school class or high school? She was so close to passing. Personally, I wouldn't care but she says you need to pass a certain amount of SOLs to graduate.

Immediately after the test results came back, the school pushed us because they wanted more passing grades, the retest was a couple weeks later.

[Anonymous]

Well, let her experience disappointment. Good opportunity for her to up-her-game academically. Not become complacent.

[Anonymous]

middle school sol don't mean anything, don't worry about it.

[Anonymous]

Low risk worry, but she doesn't need to know that. Have her worry, then prepare better and retake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, let her experience disappointment. Good opportunity for her to up-her-game academically. Not become complacent.

OP here, that's where I am leaning. Failure is growth - and this is a failure (in my mind) without a cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid did the same in Math one year, took a remediation course and passed it easy. Later got a 760 on the math SAT. Bad teacher that one year, nothing to do with the kid.

Did you do the remediation course for a middle school class or high school? She was so close to passing. Personally, I wouldn't care but she says you need to pass a certain amount of SOLs to graduate.

Immediately after the test results came back, the school pushed us because they wanted more passing grades, the retest was a couple weeks later.

We don't do the retests. The school wants to get more kids to pass. SOLs only matter for high school graduation. At the lower grades, schools are trying to get their pass rates up and that's not my kids' problem.

[Anonymous]

Who cares, honestly? Let the school worry about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares, honestly? Let the school worry about it.

Right, it reflects poorly on the school and teachers (who maybe decided to actually teach the subject rather than test prep) NOT on your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid did the same in Math one year, took a remediation course and passed it easy. Later got a 760 on the math SAT. Bad teacher that one year, nothing to do with the kid.

Did you do the remediation course for a middle school class or high school? She was so close to passing. Personally, I wouldn't care but she says you need to pass a certain amount of SOLs to graduate.

Immediately after the test results came back, the school pushed us because they wanted more passing grades, the retest was a couple weeks later.

We don't do the retests. The school wants to get more kids to pass. SOLs only matter for high school graduation. At the lower grades, schools are trying to get their pass rates up and that's not my kids' problem.

I am kinda new to SOLs, but is this accurate? My 4th grader didn't pass the social studies SOL by like 1 question. I wasn't sure if it would effect her ability to take courses in middle school...

[Anonymous]

When class lists were posted for the new school year, ES had placed all kids who had failed an SOL in the same class.

Have them retake. Why draw that attention to your kid? Retake is pretty common. Being a track record as a kid who doesn't pass SOLs is not what you want.