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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mathnasium has a strong financial incentive to tell you that your kid is behind at the beginning and then, after months of classes there, they will probably proudly announce that she is fixed, thanks to them!

I wouldn’t assume that the teacher is hiding something and mathnasium is the objective arbiter here.  [/quote]

I can accept that Mathnasium has a vest financial incentive here, but their assessment is not the only data point I'm using to draw the conclusions I'm drawing.

To recap what I stated in my original post:

1) I'm using the MAP-M scores, which MCPS administers. She's been on a downward traectory for the last three marking periods from her peak, when she was in the 71st percentile.

2) Her frustration and struggle with some homework assignments

3) The fact that she got a C and D on her math tests/quizzes for the first time

4) The Mathnasium assessment, which matches what MAP-M found. And no, they did not have access to her MAP-M results, so it's not like they manipulated it to match

So with all of that evidence, why I should ignore that she's below grade level when multiple data points tell me she is?[/quote]

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