High IAAT, miss SOL by a few points?

[Anonymous]

Do not have SOL results yet. Have spoken to parents from previous years whose student missed the cutoff by a couple of points. If IAAT is 98%+, and SOL missed by a couple of points, will schools make an exception and still offer ALgebra 1 for 7th?

[Anonymous]

I am wondering this, also, My child scored 99% on the IAAT, but always just misses pass advanced on the SOL. (Usually scores around 490). We have yet to get the SOL score from this year.

[Anonymous]

I asked the algebra teacher from our middle school and she told me if that happens to send a letter to their counselor and principal explaining why I think that DC would benefit from the class, that he/she had a bad day when taking SOL, etc. The 6th-grade math teacher's recommendation and all 4s in math will help.

[Anonymous]

Then you should be thankful that you don't have to worry about putting your DC onto a too-accelerated race-to-nowhere track.

I am really hoping that DC misses by a few points. That would be fantastic.

[Anonymous]

6th grade AAP teacher here. I usually have a few kids who fall in this scenario and if I think they should take Algebra I tell the parents to appeal. The middle school lets them in. This year I have one kid who I will give the parent this advice. We took our SOL this past week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then you should be thankful that you don't have to worry about putting your DC onto a too-accelerated race-to-nowhere track.

I am really hoping that DC misses by a few points. That would be fantastic.

You can opt out

[Anonymous]

Yes, they can get in. From DD's cohort, there were plenty of kids that missed one, the other, or both (and sometimes by wide margins) that ended up getting into Algebra 1. If the miss margin was small, the middle school let them in without any parental appeal. If the miss margin was wider, the parents appeal and the MS let them in.

[Anonymous]

How did the school notify them if no appeal if their scores were lower?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did the school notify them if no appeal if their scores were lower?

Email, same as kids that qualified. I’m not positive of the timelines, but I want to say that it came at the same time that kids that qualified were informed of their course schedule (DD’s friend was in that position and I’m friends with her mom).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they can get in. From DD's cohort, there were plenty of kids that missed one, the other, or both (and sometimes by wide margins) that ended up getting into Algebra 1. If the miss margin was small, the middle school let them in without any parental appeal. If the miss margin was wider, the parents appeal and the MS let them in.

This. The one thing my DD says is that the kids with Cs and Ds and the kids who really missed on IAAT and had parents push them in. We're trying to decide what to do without out younger kid who barely missed and the consensus at our school seems to be near miss kids do well, kids with IAATs in the 80s don't