teacher won't tell us how our kid did on the SOL

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

Normally, my students who failed the SOL have also performed poorly on the VGA, the iReady, and countless other assessments giving during the year. This is not the only datapoint.

Yes, but parents don't get to see those data points so while the teacher might know, parents do not. We haven't gotten scores back from any VGA assessment all year and I'm still waiting for the winter iReady scores to be released from our ES. They also took spring iReady tests but I don't imagine I'll see those until late this summer. I know some schools are good about releasing these scores whether they're asked for or not. But there's no consistency to it which is really frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

But why do you need to be told "quickly?" All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12. That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong. Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action.

When my kid was in kindergarten, we got our first iReady scores back on the day after school let out. Which is the first time I discovered that my kind was far below grade level for reading. Her teacher never said a word, just gave her a 3 on her report card and an automated response in the comment section. So by the time I saw those scores, school was out and there was no one to talk to. It was really frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

Normally, my students who failed the SOL have also performed poorly on the VGA, the iReady, and countless other assessments giving during the year. This is not the only datapoint.

Yes, but parents don't get to see those data points so while the teacher might know, parents do not. We haven't gotten scores back from any VGA assessment all year and I'm still waiting for the winter iReady scores to be released from our ES. They also took spring iReady tests but I don't imagine I'll see those until late this summer. I know some schools are good about releasing these scores whether they're asked for or not. But there's no consistency to it which is really frustrating.

+1 we don’t have those either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

But why do you need to be told "quickly?" All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12. That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong. Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action.

When my kid was in kindergarten, we got our first iReady scores back on the day after school let out. Which is the first time I discovered that my kind was far below grade level for reading. Her teacher never said a word, just gave her a 3 on her report card and an automated response in the comment section. So by the time I saw those scores, school was out and there was no one to talk to. It was really frustrating.

+2. This was our K experience as well. No feedback. It was worse than PreK.

[Anonymous]

Our elementary school has not provided us with the VGA results, winter iReady, or spring iReady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

But why do you need to be told "quickly?" All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12. That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong. Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action.

NP and it seems like a control issue, nothing more. One of my students retook an SOL yesterday. I was able to find out the school and tell her she passed with the exact score before she left for the day. Kids worry and it’s a nice thing to do. If anything, the elementary teachers do more SOL prep than in HS and then refuse to give results. It’s stressful for the students. -HS teacher and parent of an elementary kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

But why do you need to be told "quickly?" All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12. That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong. Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action.

NP and it seems like a control issue, nothing more. One of my students retook an SOL yesterday. I was able to find out the school and tell her she passed with the exact score before she left for the day. Kids worry and it’s a nice thing to do. If anything, the elementary teachers do more SOL prep than in HS and then refuse to give results. It’s stressful for the students. -HS teacher and parent of an elementary kid

We don’t refuse. We are told to not give the results.

I did tell one of my students that he passed his retake. He was so stressed out about not passing and I couldn’t let him do that for weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our elementary school has not provided us with the VGA results, winter iReady, or spring iReady.

Are they not in SIS ParentVue?

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I ended up asking our principal who said the county asks that the elementary schools wait until the county uploads the scores the week of June 12, but if we ask the school will tell us. For the upper schools the teachers input the scores as though it was a class test so that’s how we see it. She agrees it doesn’t make much sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our elementary school has not provided us with the VGA results, winter iReady, or spring iReady.

Are they not in SIS ParentVue?

Based on my experience, not right away, no. IIRC, DD's 6th grade spring results were not in SIS until the summer break.

This is one of the things I have liked about MS. Teachers posted everyone's SOL scores in the gradebook. I'm assuming that it isn't an option for ES because there is no gradebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly).

But why do you need to be told "quickly?" All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12. That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong. Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action.

Not the PP, but it would be nice to get the scores quickly because if you want to try and switch to tutoring or a more academic daycamp, many camps refund cutoff is June 1st. It could make a parent who wasn't offered SOAR decide to push for it. Another thing is my 4th grader really wants to know how they did even though I didn't push it at all and declined retakes. They passed one last year and failed the other. They have a Learning Disability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our elementary school has not provided us with the VGA results, winter iReady, or spring iReady.

Are they not in SIS ParentVue?

Based on my experience, not right away, no. IIRC, DD's 6th grade spring results were not in SIS until the summer break.

This is one of the things I have liked about MS. Teachers posted everyone's SOL scores in the gradebook. I'm assuming that it isn't an option for ES because there is no gradebook.

The pp mentioned VGA and Winter iReady. Are those posted?