Raise your hand if you got "the call" about SOLs
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Anonymous
| Also, if your child didn't pass, did you do a re-take? Mine didn't pass one, but we didn't want her to retake because I think she'd do worse knowing she didn't pass the first time. It would stress her out. She almost passed though! |
Anonymous
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No one is going to admit to this on DCUM. But, yeah, if my kid failed an SOL I would want them to do a retake.
Not sure what the advantage would be to not doing a retake. Maybe she would get more help next year? Summer school? Maybe someone who knows the ins/outs of it all will chime in. |
Anonymous
| What level -- ES? MS? HS? |
Anonymous
| My DD failed hers last year (3rd) and the school asked if we wanted to get her into a two-week remediation class and then have her re-take it. We asked what she wanted to do, and she sad she wanted the re-take, so we let her. When she did pass, she was very proud of her accomplishment. We also got her a tutor during the summer, and the following school year, and this year she scored more than 100 points higher than last year. We did not get "the call" officially yet, but her teacher shared her score with her and us, because she was very excited about DD's improvement, knowing how hard she worked all year. |
Anonymous
ES |
Anonymous
ES - No freaking way - that is just abusive. You know the weak spots, work on them for next year if you care. Why in the hell would you put a 10 +- year old through 6? hours of locked down testing for something that has no value to the child? |
Anonymous
| Retaking one portion of the SOL shouldn't be such horrible torture. 6 hours? Nah. |
Anonymous
No value to the child? I thought they need them for graduation. |
Anonymous
Not when they are 8. |
Anonymous
Ha. They need their 3rd grade SOLs for graduation?? Seriously?? |
Anonymous
Only for verified credits in high school. |
Anonymous
| What is this 6 hours? Each elementary test takes about 1 hour to complete. |
Anonymous
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Makes no sense to retest in elementary. |
Anonymous
Not true. I know of a few kids who spent the entire school day (except lunch) on their math SOL at my child's ES. |
Anonymous
| I thought they needed to pass them or risk not getting into Harvard. |