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[quote=Anonymous]This makes no sense. I had a horrible time with my child. He is shy and quiet. He's very, very strong in math. Its his thing and he loves it. I was told last year that he didn't do well enough on the compacted math test but could be retested. I didn't question it. In the fall, I had to push for the retesting when it didn't materialize on its own. Our school doesn't have a math specialist. We just have a reading specialist who is awful on all fronts. She told me that the retest is harder than the initial test and he probably wouldn't do well. This is in contrast to his current teacher who told me that he has the one of highest MAP-M scores in the grade and should be in compacted math. The reading specialist didn't let the current teacher give him the test. She told me that he was just under the bar for compacted math so he'll need to stay in his current class. His current teacher told me that the compacted math class is so full that he could have performed Calculus and she wouldn't have let him in. The principal and the reading specialist will not allow a second compacted math class even though the teachers pushed for it. My kid is not the only one in this situation. I asked to see my son's score and learned that it is verbal only so there is nothing other than this women's word on how he did on the test. I asked his teacher from last year whether she could remember how he did. She said that he is very good at math but the test is about verbally articulating and verbally answering questions - not showing work, answering the questions correctly, or even explaining in writing. She said that the more extroverted kids did do better because they talk much more and its a problem with the approach.

We're considering pulling out of MCPS for this and starting private school in 6th grade. We may have an opportunity to move to VA. I feel so guilty that I haven't pushed back more on all this MCPS crap. We can get out so it doesn't effect my younger child as much but I'm realizing now how much better how my older child would have been if we weren't in MCPS. [/quote]

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