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[quote=Anonymous]Ugg.  My child sat out of class for 2 days while other children took the MSA's for English.  His class was selected to be part of the PARCC test group so he will not have scores for English this year.  To me it seems since he was only sitting in the cafeteria for the MSAs, he should have taken the test to get the yearly update in his progress.  What educational benefit does sitting in the cafeteria for two hours over two days provide?  None.

Moving forward, he was scheduled to take the PARCC test yesterday and midway through the computer program, the system crashed and all data was lost.  He now is scheduled to re-take the PARCC assessments on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week (while the other kids in his gradel sit in the cafeteria).

Why is so much educational time wasted to develop a new test?

Shouldn't the programming errors been tweaked out before a mass trial?

Is Pearson Publishing inept in the programing for the test?

Doesn't this raise the issue that probably paper assessments are better because they don't crash while children across the county are taking them?

Crazy MCPS - they seem to be more interested in test development than actually teaching the kids.

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