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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I took the GRE, I got the results as soon as I finished the test. But, sure, it takes a half year to figure out and report children's PARCC scores. [/quote]

Well, the GREs are for you and so you can provide them to grad schools. As I understand it, PARCC is primarily for the district's use in understanding teacher effectiveness and placement of students and is only provided to parents because it's hard to justify why they shouldn't.

I don't know if it was PARCC or what, but when our children were in ES we would get various test scores allegedly measuring different things and would get a sort of scripted line about how it related to norms, but for results beyond Lexile score and math grade level, when we asked how the number was arrived, what it represented, etc. we were almost always told "it's a black box, we can't really say". So, we could be told if our child was above or below the mean, but not why. All of it seemed very useless, and some teachers agreed. None of them ever encouraged us to take any of the numbers very seriously, as with even the Lexile and math grade level, they invariably said they considered our children at a higher level, even when they were above grade level.[/quote]

But with other tests used for similar purposes, parents get their tests much faster. Fairfax county parents are already getting their kids "SOL" (their PARCC equivalent) scores now. This is an unacceptable excuse. Of course parents want to know! And also may need it if their kid is switching to a new school district next year - i.e. for appropriate services, leveled within grade placement, honors placement, etc.
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We applied to private this year, and despite not having seen any PARCC scores ourselves understand that the private school was able to get them when we requested transcripts and tests be sent.[/quote]

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