My child had only 6 minutes for the first part of CES test

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be helpful to complain to ARI about this situation. It might not help your child, OP, but it could send them on the path of fixing this for next year. If they don’t hear about these issues, they definitely won’t know to think about a fix.

OP here. This was a great suggestion, thank you. I spoke with the AEI office and they were incredibly attentive and helpful. Sounds like it was almost certainly a series of unfortunate events that created a local glitch with the timers and not necessarily systemwide, but they are now aware of it. If you feel there was a problem with your child’s testing, they can investigate a great deal through the testing company. Always great to have a public official doing their job so cheerfully and thoroughly. And thanks to all here for the feedback.

Did they tell you that your child can retake the test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be helpful to complain to ARI about this situation. It might not help your child, OP, but it could send them on the path of fixing this for next year. If they don’t hear about these issues, they definitely won’t know to think about a fix.

OP here. This was a great suggestion, thank you. I spoke with the AEI office and they were incredibly attentive and helpful. Sounds like it was almost certainly a series of unfortunate events that created a local glitch with the timers and not necessarily systemwide, but they are now aware of it. If you feel there was a problem with your child’s testing, they can investigate a great deal through the testing company. Always great to have a public official doing their job so cheerfully and thoroughly. And thanks to all here for the feedback.

Did they tell you that your child can retake the test?

We discussed it a bit and opted not to.

[Anonymous]

12:59 here. I'm glad AEI was so helpful! These boards can leave one with the feeling that MCPS and parents are adversaries, when I firmly believe that we are all doing our best to support the kids.