SAT Administration Shit Show at Jackson-Reid

[Anonymous]

My kid, a high achiever with generally good test scores, also reported that the JR proctors chatted audibly during the test, which was distracting.

[Anonymous]

Ghetto school with bad behavior. Culture of low expectations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't "overcoming adversity" supposed to be a key part of their college application? Practice what your children will preach in their essays.

Are you for real?? Your condescending overcoming as adversity is BS. These kids deserve a quiet and well run show to help them do the best they can on a very important tests.

Go have your “overcoming ad adversity” kid take the test in one of these shi*tshow and don’t come crying when they tank the test.

It’s incredible how some posters on here make every stupid excuse in the book for unacceptable things in DCPS instead of demanding better.

I know we love to bash DCPS on here, but my DC took the test at a DC charter and said it was also a mess at the beginning. Like they did not have desks ready when students arrived. They started about an hour late (with desks). I would tend to blame the College Board for not insisting on quality conditions rather than an individual school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't "overcoming adversity" supposed to be a key part of their college application? Practice what your children will preach in their essays.

Are you for real?? Your condescending overcoming as adversity is BS. These kids deserve a quiet and well run show to help them do the best they can on a very important tests.

Go have your “overcoming ad adversity” kid take the test in one of these shi*tshow and don’t come crying when they tank the test.

It’s incredible how some posters on here make every stupid excuse in the book for unacceptable things in DCPS instead of demanding better.

I know we love to bash DCPS on here, but my DC took the test at a DC charter and said it was also a mess at the beginning. Like they did not have desks ready when students arrived. They started about an hour late (with desks). I would tend to blame the College Board for not insisting on quality conditions rather than an individual school.

It's a mess with blame to go around. College board simply contracts with the schools who are then in charge of running the test center on the day of the test in accordance with the contract they have signed. They schools are paid enough to cover their facility and labor costs.

The payment is very low so in California there is a huge crisis of no test centers. Kids are having to fly and drive to other states to get a test site. Many articles about this.

In DC and other large cities, the outcome of low payment by CB is that schools who were already not terrific at hiring temp talent probably hire incrementally worse temp talent for test admin day and the planning the days before is also marginally lower caliber.

And hence the charter experience above and the J-R experience of O/P

Having had multiple kids go through this, my rubric is close-in suburban school (bethesda, arlington, McLean >>> DC). Or DC private school (I think St Johns one of the few) >>> DCPS

[Anonymous]

@collegeboard #equity

[Anonymous]

The California state schools are test blind so no one is offering the test.