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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not worry about the score for your child. They do not have any impact on his or her grades.The SOL will show that your teacher did not teach well if all of the children's scores are low.I know at our school they stressed how important it was for the kids to do well.They sent home study guides and refesher packets.My child was becomming very stressed about the whole situation until I told her the test did not grade her but were a grade for her teacher. I decided that either she would know it or not and we did not do any of the study guides.[/quote]

As a teacher, this really frustrates me.  Not just the fact that you encouraged your daughter to blow off her review guides, but that you think SOLs are more a test for how "good" a teacher is.  I teach 8th grade science, and the science VA SOL in 8th grade tests 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science.  I give review packets because these kids are being tested on science they haven't seen for 3 years (and may never have seen it, depending on how high a priority science was in their ES).  It is frustrating in the extreme when students do not do them-while we go over them in class, I do not have the time to re-teach 2 additional years worth of science.  When kids blow off these reviews, yes, it does affect their overall score, and then parents like you see lower marks, and assume it is the teacher's fault.  That is not fair.

I realize that not all SOL tests are like the 8th grade science SOL, and if your DD had a decent teacher during the year, yes, she should do fine on an SOL.  But it really irks me that you are communicating to your child that not reviewing/doing work requested by the teacher IN ORDER TO HELP PREPARE HER for a test is acceptable-and then you assume when kids do poorly, it is all the teacher's fault.  If you think she already knows the material that will be graded, do you still encourage her to do her homework?  I would think yes.

And OP-yes, the schools already have the SOL scores, but most do not give out the scores for privacy reasons.  They are mailed to you in mid-summer.[/quote]

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