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[quote=Anonymous]No, not weeks, but when parents advocate that more than one year be covered in an SOL test, they run the risk of that teacher having to review more than one year's worth of material. Here's a teacher complaining about that very thing.

As a teacher, this really frustrates me. Not just the fact that you encouraged your daughter to blow off her review guides, but that you think SOLs are more a test for how "good" a teacher is. I teach 8th grade science, and the science VA SOL in 8th grade tests 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science. I give review packets because these kids are being tested on science they haven't seen for 3 years (and may never have seen it, depending on how high a priority science was in their ES). It is frustrating in the extreme when students do not do them-while we go over them in class, I do not have the time to re-teach 2 additional years worth of science. When kids blow off these reviews, yes, it does affect their overall score, and then parents like you see lower marks, and assume it is the teacher's fault. That is not fair.

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