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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid is in Algebra this year in middle school - is this part of MCAP testing? We may need to travel out of country for 3 weeks in late March. Can this test be taken when we come back if we get permission from Principal?[/quote]

Hi, you can't travel out of the country for 3 weeks in March and not have your kid impacted. 10 days of consecutive absences will result in your kid being unenrolled from MCPS.

You need to stop and revisit your travel plans.[/quote]

Does the withdrawal after ten days of absences mean/do anything to families?

To my knowledge when families return, they just reenroll them and families don't really know the difference, other then that they had their students out of school for a period and returned.

And the withdrawal/reenrollment is more to protect the schools from having students with a high number of absences.

With the MCAP, they'll have students continually retake the test until they meet the requirements, which to my knowledge is take the test only.  So if your student didn't meet the requirement in the given administration, they'll have the student take the test in the next administration.  Your student may have some disadvantages in having a gap from when they last learned the material and may not do as well in the test.  Not sure if that's a big deal to you.

There are some tests, the Life Sciences and Government, where the scores account for part of the final grade (20 percent?).  But don't think they have that in place for Algebra yet:

End of Course Exams Information

Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, for students entering the ninth grade (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment for science and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in the respective high school level biology and government course. Additional information can be found at the End Of Course Exams Information page.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/mcap/
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/end-of-course-exams-information/[/quote]

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