Schools yet to receive NNAT scores?

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Anonymous wrote:Still no scores! Seriously!

Seriously????? I don't even remember ever seeing my kids NNAT scores, and they're all A honor students in HS . You people are way over focused on the wrong things here. Your kids are in 1st grade. Stand down.

You crack me up! You've got kids in high school and are still on these boards. Stand down, indeed.

I work in education, so I guess you could say I have an ongoing interest. With older kids, I also have experience that many of the parents obsessing over their kid's NNAT scores don't, so I think it's quite appropriate to post here. But as always, I'm sure there are plenty of parents who are going to have to learn the hard way.

You work in education so you have an interest in this? Um...okay...

The fact that this is difficult for you to understand makes me wonder why you're on this board.

You are on this board when you teenagers in high school who are years past the AAP stage because YOU have been way over focused on the wrong things for years. You enjoy telling people, however, that you are coming from years of experience and can see the error of their ways. When called on this, you then claim you are on these boards because you work in "education." I understand completely.

Oh, I'm on these boards because I have kids in AAP in elementary school.

You lost me when you started trying to tell me what my focus has been for years?? Is it so difficult to understand how someone could work in and have and interest in education (I'm in govt., btw) that goes beyond his or her own kids? I have watched for years as parents have gotten more and more involved in worrying about or trying to game these tests and the end result is a high pressure school environment that starts at younger and younger ages. This has affected the entire FCPS school system and hurt a lot of kids, which is sad.

As I said in a related post on this board, half the time with the NNAT, you find kids checked out or not even hearing the instructions. The NNAT is one (and not even the most important) of multiple tools that will be used to measure your kid's abilities. If the micro-managing starts here, you've got a long road ahead of you. I mean, I get it, we're all curious about how smart our kids are. It's neat discovering their strengths and weaknesses. But this intense focus so early on has led to test prepping and retakes and a lot of unnecessary stress for parents and kids that nobody needs.

What I do suspect is that most parents will look back and wonder why they got so worked up and feel bad for the pressure they inadvertently put on their kids. That isn't because I was over-focused on these tests, etc. with mine. My anxieties for them were in areas outside of school....some silly in retrospect, certainly. But I kn kids whose parents could recite their test scores from an early age and always seemed to be about intervening to make these scores better. Perhaps you disagree, but insulting me really really doesn't strengthen your argument.

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Anonymous wrote:Still no scores! Seriously!

Seriously????? I don't even remember ever seeing my kids NNAT scores, and they're all A honor students in HS . You people are way over focused on the wrong things here. Your kids are in 1st grade. Stand down.

You crack me up! You've got kids in high school and are still on these boards. Stand down, indeed.

I work in education, so I guess you could say I have an ongoing interest. With older kids, I also have experience that many of the parents obsessing over their kid's NNAT scores don't, so I think it's quite appropriate to post here. But as always, I'm sure there are plenty of parents who are going to have to learn the hard way.

You work in education so you have an interest in this? Um...okay...

The fact that this is difficult for you to understand makes me wonder why you're on this board.

You are on this board when you teenagers in high school who are years past the AAP stage because YOU have been way over focused on the wrong things for years. You enjoy telling people, however, that you are coming from years of experience and can see the error of their ways. When called on this, you then claim you are on these boards because you work in "education." I understand completely.

Oh, I'm on these boards because I have kids in AAP in elementary school.

You lost me when you started trying to tell me what my focus has been for years?? Is it so difficult to understand how someone could work in and have and interest in education (I'm in govt., btw) that goes beyond his or her own kids? I have watched for years as parents have gotten more and more involved in worrying about or trying to game these tests and the end result is a high pressure school environment that starts at younger and younger ages. This has affected the entire FCPS school system and hurt a lot of kids, which is sad.

As I said in a related post on this board, half the time with the NNAT, you find kids checked out or not even hearing the instructions. The NNAT is one (and not even the most important) of multiple tools that will be used to measure your kid's abilities. If the micro-managing starts here, you've got a long road ahead of you. I mean, I get it, we're all curious about how smart our kids are. It's neat discovering their strengths and weaknesses. But this intense focus so early on has led to test prepping and retakes and a lot of unnecessary stress for parents and kids that nobody needs.

What I do suspect is that most parents will look back and wonder why they got so worked up and feel bad for the pressure they inadvertently put on their kids. That isn't because I was over-focused on these tests, etc. with mine. My anxieties for them were in areas outside of school....some silly in retrospect, certainly. But I kn kids whose parents could recite their test scores from an early age and always seemed to be about intervening to make these scores better. Perhaps you disagree, but insulting me really really doesn't strengthen your argument.

NP here. This expanding ball of nonsense started with an off-key reply to a parent expressing understandable frustration at waiting for a score long after other schools received theirs. Rather than offer an encouraging "hang in there", you thought it best to tout your own kids, alienate others ("you people"), smother us with question marks and leave PP with the bizarrely bossy order to "stand down". After being called out as more hilarious than helpful, you've since doubled down with longer passive-aggressive explanations of what's wrong with everyone else on this board. I really can't tell if you're a troll or being trolled. Either way it's the liveliest thing to happen here in weeks. Keep it up.