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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And our DC’s teacher gave them weekly graded quizzes off of old SOL test questions for the past 5 months. So, the SOL tests are already being incorporated into their grades.  [/quote]

That's different, because it's practice. I'm pretty irritated about this whole thing though because teaching to standardized tests is the whole reason education has been dumbed down so much over the past 20 years. Let's please do away with all the standardized testing.[/quote]It’s actually worse.  The SOL being tied into one final grade only impacts one quarter. But, the constant SOL quizzes tied into Q2, Q3, and Q4 grades downgrades them for 3 quarters. Plus, the teacher does not teach or review the material— that is all on the child.  The class turned into a testing center with a weekly SOL test each Monday.  This is while the ongoing new material was required. It was constant testing off of the SOLs.  [/quote]

Everyone is doing the year long rolling gradebook next year so it won't make a difference.  But if it's counted as 10% of the overall grade as claimed, the final exam grade is separate from the year long gradebook and averaged in at the end anyway, even if they did quarterly averaging.[/quote]

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