Who to reach out to about next year's SOL grading policy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

Omg. How many times do you have to be told we don’t know yet how it will look. Worry about it when you get the facts.

PP- my DC score on the SOL was counted this year- math score bumped her class grade up and her reading scope bumped her class grade down… not sure why it’s already counting but…this is why I’m questioning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

Omg. How many times do you have to be told we don’t know yet how it will look. Worry about it when you get the facts.

PP- my DC score on the SOL was counted this year- math score bumped her class grade up and her reading scope bumped her class grade down… not sure why it’s already counting but…this is why I’m questioning.

Bumping this. You are foolish to think everything will be taken care of without massive complaining from the parents. Any thought s on who to write? I’ve not had luck in the past with our rep from Vienna, is there someone else who is more responsive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

OP here, this is what I would like to ask someone in Gatehouse. I have an A student who gets Pass-Proficient on SOLs. If the SOL is 10% of the final grade, this will likely bring my students A down to an A- or B. I have heard that they are changing the grading mechanism for the SOL too (so that it might be out of 100 instead of 600), but I would have the same concern.

[Anonymous]

I don't think FCPS wants to implement this, so complaining to them is futile. There's a message from Reid noting how she thinks this is a really bad idea and asked FCPS parents to reach out to state legislators prior to the vote. She even gives stats noting that FCPS meets and exceeds state levels and that this policy will only hurt the overall student body. The time to have acted is before the vote took place. Now it's just about implementation and getting upset with FCPS won't do much.

[Anonymous]

This policy is so stupid, and will hurt kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And our DC’s teacher gave them weekly graded quizzes off of old SOL test questions for the past 5 months. So, the SOL tests are already being incorporated into their grades.

That's different, because it's practice. I'm pretty irritated about this whole thing though because teaching to standardized tests is the whole reason education has been dumbed down so much over the past 20 years. Let's please do away with all the standardized testing.

They’re teaching “to the standards”. There just happens to be a test covering the standards at the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

No one at fcps has information on how this will look in practice - because VDOE has not ironed out all the details, ramifications, or unintended consequences. I think fcps and other districts are hoping or waiting for it to be revised or go away. No specifics have gone out to any assessment staff as to how this will be done if implemented.. so no one will be able to answer your questions at this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one at fcps has information on how this will look in practice - because VDOE has not ironed out all the details, ramifications, or unintended consequences. I think fcps and other districts are hoping or waiting for it to be revised or go away. No specifics have gone out to any assessment staff as to how this will be done if implemented.. so no one will be able to answer your questions at this time.

+1 that’s what I keep trying to tell the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

OP here, this is what I would like to ask someone in Gatehouse. I have an A student who gets Pass-Proficient on SOLs. If the SOL is 10% of the final grade, this will likely bring my students A down to an A- or B. I have heard that they are changing the grading mechanism for the SOL too (so that it might be out of 100 instead of 600), but I would have the same concern.

There is no way to know any of this. Chill the f out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

Omg. How many times do you have to be told we don’t know yet how it will look. Worry about it when you get the facts.

PP- my DC score on the SOL was counted this year- math score bumped her class grade up and her reading scope bumped her class grade down… not sure why it’s already counting but…this is why I’m questioning.

You should be asking your child’s teacher now why it is counting this year as part of their grade when the law doesn’t go into effect until July. I would be having words with the teacher if my kid’s grade went down this year due to the SOL. Not asking about next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Question then- if my child is an A student in MS HR and scores between 400-500 which they claim is "proficient" then why would they get a B added to their grade? Are parents now supposed to make sure we get outside tutoring for our child to take a standardized test based on material a teacher (every teacher is different) taught my child so they can get above a 500 (which they claim is advanced)....I get the premises of the test but I don't agree with it being part of your permanent grade now.

OP here, this is what I would like to ask someone in Gatehouse. I have an A student who gets Pass-Proficient on SOLs. If the SOL is 10% of the final grade, this will likely bring my students A down to an A- or B. I have heard that they are changing the grading mechanism for the SOL too (so that it might be out of 100 instead of 600), but I would have the same concern.

Same. I have a kid who gets As or A-s but has never gotten a pass advanced except one English year. Always Pass proficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one at fcps has information on how this will look in practice - because VDOE has not ironed out all the details, ramifications, or unintended consequences. I think fcps and other districts are hoping or waiting for it to be revised or go away. No specifics have gone out to any assessment staff as to how this will be done if implemented.. so no one will be able to answer your questions at this time.

+1 that’s what I keep trying to tell the OP.

OP here, I'm not sure what is wrong with you, but I posted once, and then I replied to someone once. You didn't need to say the same thing over and over again. Clearly, based on the posts by other people, I'm not the only person here wondering this. And now because the other PP posted a nice, reasonable response, that explains the situation, I have my answer. YOUR answers were not helpful, they were incredibly rude.

Thank you to the first PP that explained things like a normal person instead of just whining.

[Anonymous]

This article makes it sounds like the 10% part of the required grade was removed from the final bill.

https://warhawknews.com/6732/news/sol-policy-changes-raise-questions-about-expectations-next-school-year/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This article makes it sounds like the 10% part of the required grade was removed from the final bill.

https://warhawknews.com/6732/news/sol-policy-changes-raise-questions-about-expectations-next-school-year/

With all due respect, you are using a high school student newspaper as your source—I wouldn’t trust this one bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one at fcps has information on how this will look in practice - because VDOE has not ironed out all the details, ramifications, or unintended consequences. I think fcps and other districts are hoping or waiting for it to be revised or go away. No specifics have gone out to any assessment staff as to how this will be done if implemented.. so no one will be able to answer your questions at this time.

+1 that’s what I keep trying to tell the OP.

OP here, I'm not sure what is wrong with you, but I posted once, and then I replied to someone once. You didn't need to say the same thing over and over again. Clearly, based on the posts by other people, I'm not the only person here wondering this. And now because the other PP posted a nice, reasonable response, that explains the situation, I have my answer. YOUR answers were not helpful, they were incredibly rude.

Thank you to the first PP that explained things like a normal person instead of just whining.

The very first response I posted to you was very nice and you ignored it. I’ll repost so you can see. It was the very first reply on the thread. You keep ranting about the same concern and you have been told over and over already in nice ways.