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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]" Some view it as the educational equivalent of an ER with an endless supply of trauma patients."

Agreed.  I do believe that the major wounds of the patient must be addressed way before concern for SOL scores.  You can't bandage the scratches while the arteries have been punctured.  To me, that's what the SOL scores can show---that there has been superficial "help", but who knows if the underlying issues have been addressed.

In order to function well in society, there are many skills that a person needs and none of those are "tested" via the SOLs.  If a person is not well adjusted physically, emotionally, socially, and psychologically, you can forget whatever the SOL score is.

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There was a fascinating article about this recently in the NYT by an educator expressing frustration with the focus on raising the test scores of the most challenged student populations, as opposed to dealing with the underlying issues that stand in the way of academic progress.  Maybe you saw the piece.

These are really tough issues, and I think as a society we've dumped an enormous and increasing amount of responsibility on public schools without acknowledging it.  But, again, where parents are concerned, they put their own kids first, whether that means looking for a highly rated public, checking to see that their own particular demographic does OK at a less highly rated school, or opting for private.  One could argue that some of these burdens need to be shared more equally among jurisdictions or schools (including the privates that some of the policy-makers who make the decisions that affect the public schools send their own children to instead) but until that happens most people are not going to stop aiming for schools that they believe will give their own kids a solid chance of success.

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