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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May.  I’ve lost faith in APS.  [/quote]

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever). [/quote]

It is deeply wrong.  Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance.  For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us.  We lost an entire summer of tutoring.  We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student.  In hindsight, teacher was just a dud.  We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence.   It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.  [/quote]

I mean I agree with you! I don't' see why they can't immediate release scores and then re-release the scaled scores once the State does whatever it does to the data. [/quote] Fairfax does, so it's clearly possible.[/quote]

No they don't. I am an FCPS parent. SOLS take forever to get back. DS took the iReady in January, his school takes it 3 times a year, and we don't have the scores. We have heard nothing about the VGA. We get nothing in a timely manner. It sucks.[/quote]

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