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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In theory I think it's great for the reasons of providing equal opportunity etc.

In practice, it was incredibly disruptive for kids in all the other grades, whose day was cut to 3 30-minute classes (one of those being PE for my freshman.) Plus MCPS only disseminated the news about this testing date a couple of weeks ago, and the logistics were terrible -- for my kid's HS, if you were not a junior taking the SATs you had to spend the day sitting in the gym doing nothing or find your own transportation to school at 1245 for those epic 90 minutes of instruction. I saw a lot of kids walking past my house (several miles from our HS) -- presumably they had no other way there. And from I heard, many kids didn't show at all. So everyone lost a day of instruction. It's not clear to me that this was a win-win overall.[/quote]

Everyone should really teach their kids how to use the county bus system to at least be able to get themselves to and from school when necessary.[/quote]

Yup. And a couple miles' walk on a nice day won't hurt high school students either.

At my kid's high school, in addition to the SAT tests, there were also practice AP tests for the AP classes mostly seniors take.[/quote]

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