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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are SOL scores a fluke when if you fail you can retake them?

If you don't have the sense throughout the year that your kid may need SELT and are surprised now doesn't that mean you weren't paying attention to your kid's education?  Kids with 4s are not being offered SELT.[/quote]

16:11 here. Some kids are just bad test takers. The anxiety gets to them or they're easily tripped up by the questions that are intentionally misleading (of which there are many) or any other number of things can lead to a child being a bad test taker but not a bad student. If they're a bad test taker, re taking the test isn't really going to improve anything. SELT is not about teaching test-taking skills, so wouldn't be very useful to these children. However, as SELT coordinator for my school, I don't necessarily know all of the kids who failed an SOL individually, so I have to rely on their current classroom teachers to make the decision of whether or not SELT will be useful for them. Unfortunately in the chaos of the end of the year, not all of the teachers noticed that caveat, which can result in some confused parents like OP. 
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