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Anonymous
Reading, math and science are the only ones they do in 5th. All went up. That is the critical year they look at. |
It's not baseball honey teachers don't get traded. Life will go on....but depending who is teaching your kids-it might be a rough life. But you are correct there is nothing you can do but get those tutors ready.
Anonymous
Man, you’ll do anything to tear the new guy down. Won’t give him credit for anything. |
Anonymous
Not my intention, just stating an observation. Unclench. |
Anonymous
Ok, I thought other grades also have multiple SOLs not just 5th but you must have better knowledge. |
Anonymous
| They probably didn’t mention the other scores because they are already so high so actually didn’t show improvement - they simply maintained status quo. For example, the pass rate for grade 4 math in 2022-2023 was already at 97%. Grade 6 math in 2022-2023 was already 95%. Whereas for Grade 5 math in 2022-2023, it was only 88%. So moving to 96% pass rate this year in Grade 5 math was huge. The newsletter simply highlighted the improved scores which is quite an accomplishment. But go on with your nonsense. |
Anonymous
I didn’t say all. Test scores in some areas have always been high. They highlighted what improved. So what I said still holds true - SOL scores went up. Yeah! |
Anonymous
What nonsense? It was an observation that the information was incomplete. You are unhinged. |
Anonymous
If the pass rate was 88 percent in Grade 5 in 22-23 they should be looking at 6th grade math this year to see improvement. Not comparing two different groups of kids. -teacher |
Anonymous
+1 Maybe that Grade 5 year was just heavy in SPED, OR had pandemic related math losses that the current 5th grade didn’t |
Anonymous
That’s not how they look at the SOL data and you’d know it if you were actually a teacher. They do not look to see if there is an improvement in a specific cohort as the teachers change for the cohort every year. They look at the grade level data and they use that to determine what changes they need to make at grade level in their instruction. I wonder what you’d be saying if the scores went down? |
Anonymous
You sound batsh*t. |
Anonymous
No, you implied that because only a subset of scores were highlighted, that something must be wrong. Of course they aren’t going to painstakingly go through every grade level’s pass rate in a blurb. They are going to highlight the improvements. We should be celebrating the achievements of Navy! |
Anonymous
Ha- you are right they don’t look at it this way, but as a teacher, I can assure you they should. Look at the way they want to rearrange kids and redo boundaries so they can claim all schools are equally good. It is because they want to cover up the kids who they aren’t reaching and still aren’t testing well. Looking at the same grade level with different kids in it every year rather than looking for student growth in the same population between one year and the next is an apples to oranges comparison. The composition of kids matters. The board knows this and wants to remix boundaries, but they then hold teachers a standard they themselves can’t meet: Making sure kids can pass the SOL regardless of their linguistic, ethnic and SES status. Great system- right? (Pffft.) |
Anonymous
I am a teacher. You have to look at the group of kids. You can have a very high group of kids one year and a low the next. If you look at the year before they stated the pass rate was 97 percent. So having something similar in fifth is expected. I just finished a year where the grade level had a history of poor performance due to ESL, SPED and severe behaviors. I can’t compare the year before SOL grades because it was a totally different group of kids. |
Anonymous
Adding on they do look at growth when looking at SOL pass rates. Kid who failed year before passed, growth adds on to percentage and so does WIDA growth. So the 88 percent could actually be lower. |