APS: SOL Failure Notification

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it would be helpful to know immediately so the student could do summer school. Additionally, right now there is the VDOE grant the family could have used for tutoring.

The fact APS has a policy to wait till the last allowable minute unlike FCPS is the concerning theme of this thread IMO. Why hide this from parents?

I don't know, but people should be making public comments about this to the school board. emailing the principal does nothing when it's a district wide policy.

[Anonymous]

We lost 9 weeks due to this failure to notify almost entirely over the summer when the child was continuing the “summer slide” to 1) begin the process of diagnosing a
Learning Disability, which could take months, and, 2) we did not set up tutoring because we were not advised by the teacher/school that the need was there. I get that the teacher should have given us some information and I fault this particular teacher but had APS given us the score we would have realized how bad things might be. So rather than enter the new elementary year having worked over the summer, child did not meet standards over last year and fell further behind over the summer. The failure to notify us was truly harmful to our child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We lost 9 weeks due to this failure to notify almost entirely over the summer when the child was continuing the “summer slide” to 1) begin the process of diagnosing a
Learning Disability, which could take months, and, 2) we did not set up tutoring because we were not advised by the teacher/school that the need was there. I get that the teacher should have given us some information and I fault this particular teacher but had APS given us the score we would have realized how bad things might be. So rather than enter the new elementary year having worked over the summer, child did not meet standards over last year and fell further behind over the summer. The failure to notify us was truly harmful to our child.

“9 weeks”? Did your kid fail the math SOL?

No one should be using the SOL as a diagnostic criteria for LDs.

Your kid has received multiple assessments throughout the year that would have raised concerns. If you ignored all of that and were waiting on the SOL (which isn’t even helpful to diagnose LDs) then that’s on you.

Seems like people are just looking for things to complain about.

[Anonymous]

OP, ignore the haters. You're right to be upset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, ignore the haters. You're right to be upset.

Agree, ignore the syphax agents on here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, ignore the haters. You're right to be upset.

Agree, ignore the syphax agents on here

Nope. Just a parent who knows how to count and understands how SOLs/LDs work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We lost 9 weeks due to this failure to notify almost entirely over the summer when the child was continuing the “summer slide” to 1) begin the process of diagnosing a
Learning Disability, which could take months, and, 2) we did not set up tutoring because we were not advised by the teacher/school that the need was there. I get that the teacher should have given us some information and I fault this particular teacher but had APS given us the score we would have realized how bad things might be. So rather than enter the new elementary year having worked over the summer, child did not meet standards over last year and fell further behind over the summer. The failure to notify us was truly harmful to our child.

“9 weeks”? Did your kid fail the math SOL?

No one should be using the SOL as a diagnostic criteria for LDs.

Your kid has received multiple assessments throughout the year that would have raised concerns. If you ignored all of that and were waiting on the SOL (which isn’t even helpful to diagnose LDs) then that’s on you.

Seems like people are just looking for things to complain about.

+1

[Anonymous]

It depends on the district's policy, and the age of your child. If your kid in grade school, let it go in terms of contacting the school. Instead, work one-on-one with your child to improve in that subject area.

With school starting next week, now is a great time to have your kid dust off a few cobwebs by doing a little bit of review. Print out a few worksheets in that subject area and have your child do them. Then you can discuss them, and identify any gaps or problem areas.

If your child is in high school: Does the child have to pass the subject SOL to graduate from high school? It can be a requirement that a 9-12 student pass all SOLs. It is in our district. If so, your child will need to retake that SOL before graduating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We lost 9 weeks due to this failure to notify almost entirely over the summer when the child was continuing the “summer slide” to 1) begin the process of diagnosing a
Learning Disability, which could take months, and, 2) we did not set up tutoring because we were not advised by the teacher/school that the need was there. I get that the teacher should have given us some information and I fault this particular teacher but had APS given us the score we would have realized how bad things might be. So rather than enter the new elementary year having worked over the summer, child did not meet standards over last year and fell further behind over the summer. The failure to notify us was truly harmful to our child.

“9 weeks”? Did your kid fail the math SOL?

No one should be using the SOL as a diagnostic criteria for LDs.

Your kid has received multiple assessments throughout the year that would have raised concerns. If you ignored all of that and were waiting on the SOL (which isn’t even helpful to diagnose LDs) then that’s on you.

Seems like people are just looking for things to complain about.

+1

I am. Don’t worry. They know nothing about the data/my child. We do understand that SOLs aren’t diagnostic tools. We also understand that they are data point. One that APS hides from parents for months for no good reason as far as I can tell.

I can articulate the harm to my child.

What is the justification for the delay?

[Anonymous]

The sycophants on here for APS never fail to disappoint.

To the OP, I’m sorry you’ve gone through this and our extremely well funded school district has completely let you down to presumably hide their own shortcomings (why else have this policy).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it would be helpful to know immediately so the student could do summer school. Additionally, right now there is the VDOE grant the family could have used for tutoring.

The fact APS has a policy to wait till the last allowable minute unlike FCPS is the concerning theme of this thread IMO. Why hide this from parents?

I don't know, but people should be making public comments about this to the school board. emailing the principal does nothing when it's a district wide policy.

No one is going to make public comment about their own kid failing SOLS. That’s not a realistic expectation and should not be needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We lost 9 weeks due to this failure to notify almost entirely over the summer when the child was continuing the “summer slide” to 1) begin the process of diagnosing a
Learning Disability, which could take months, and, 2) we did not set up tutoring because we were not advised by the teacher/school that the need was there. I get that the teacher should have given us some information and I fault this particular teacher but had APS given us the score we would have realized how bad things might be. So rather than enter the new elementary year having worked over the summer, child did not meet standards over last year and fell further behind over the summer. The failure to notify us was truly harmful to our child.

“9 weeks”? Did your kid fail the math SOL?

No one should be using the SOL as a diagnostic criteria for LDs.

Your kid has received multiple assessments throughout the year that would have raised concerns. If you ignored all of that and were waiting on the SOL (which isn’t even helpful to diagnose LDs) then that’s on you.

Seems like people are just looking for things to complain about.

+1

I am. Don’t worry. They know nothing about the data/my child. We do understand that SOLs aren’t diagnostic tools. We also understand that they are data point. One that APS hides from parents for months for no good reason as far as I can tell.

I can articulate the harm to my child.

What is the justification for the delay?

Any harm to your child comes from you wasting time focusing on the wrong issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sycophants on here for APS never fail to disappoint.

To the OP, I’m sorry you’ve gone through this and our extremely well funded school district has completely let you down to presumably hide their own shortcomings (why else have this policy).

OP's story is BS. If she and her team of doctors were waiting on the results of the SOL to determine next steps to address her kid's LDs then they were doing it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like it would be helpful to know immediately so the student could do summer school. Additionally, right now there is the VDOE grant the family could have used for tutoring.

The fact APS has a policy to wait till the last allowable minute unlike FCPS is the concerning theme of this thread IMO. Why hide this from parents?

I don't know, but people should be making public comments about this to the school board. emailing the principal does nothing when it's a district wide policy.

No one is going to make public comment about their own kid failing SOLS. That’s not a realistic expectation and should not be needed.

Parents can meet with school board members privately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sycophants on here for APS never fail to disappoint.

To the OP, I’m sorry you’ve gone through this and our extremely well funded school district has completely let you down to presumably hide their own shortcomings (why else have this policy).

OP's story is BS. If she and her team of doctors were waiting on the results of the SOL to determine next steps to address her kid's LDs then they were doing it wrong.

Seriously? What are you talking about? I am OP. No way was I “waiting” with my “team of doctors” on the SOL results. First off, I don’t have a team of doctors. I hired one private doctor. And am talking to educational consultants and former teachers. I did so BECAUSE OF MY CHILDS SOLS RESULTS which I leaned about two weeks ago. I can tell you only that SOL results were the straw that broke the camels back in our decision to pursue identifying whether the child has an LD. It’s an expensive process. S/he may not; I hope they don’t. But certainly the fact of the failures and margin on failures were relevant to our decision. This information was withheld from us by APS, and we would have taken action earlier had we known about the results. They were inconsistent with teacher feedback but not necessarily every test result. Sometimes it’s not a 100% clear picture for parents which is why passing information along is really really important—especially where a teacher doesn’t communicate. But putting aside the LD which everyone is focused on, the learning loss over the summer is the true crime here. What about tutoring funds we did not access? What summer school we did not pursue? What about turors we did not privately hire? I am so pissed.