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[quote=Anonymous]So what if the school slips in a ranking? Having your kid do extra remediation is just going to stress the kid and all the other kids will realize who has to retake. Unless you’re trying to qualify for a special program, it doesn’t matter. We look at the scores once in September and then forget about them. Kids move in and out of instructional groups all the time. Retaking is a huge strain on the staff, who have to schedule them and the proctors, etc. We breathe a sigh of relief if the parent says no to retake. Big deal if they get ten more points and pass. It goes in a file and doesn’t count for anything. It’s one moment in time and crappy tests. Today we had a fourth grader with ADHD who didn’t realize he hadn’t scrolled all the way down to read the whole passage, even though he’d been told to ahead of time. When the teacher noticed that he hadn’t read it all, she as the allowed to tell him to keep reading. It tested if he can take a test, not if he can read. He got confused and gave up. Not a measure of skills in reading. Good measure of executive functioning, though![/quote]

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