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It is hard to believe that schools nowadays provide this "waste of time" information to the public.

If you really can't figure it out, I can tell you a few things those test scores can tell you:
1. it can tell you how "good" (performance-wise) your kids' schoolmates are going to be. Maybe you don't care, fine. But many parents do.

2. It provides a bottom line on how good (or, not so bad) the school performs. Sure, it does not tell you everything about the teachers and schools. [b]But it is hard to imagine a school being disfunctional and teachers being highly disqualified in a school where the student test scores are among the top in the region.
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[b]I guess you don't read the threads on DCUM about Churchill HS.[/b]

The schools nowadays provide this information to the public because federal law required them to. (I don't know whether federal law still requires them to.) The idea was that the standardized test scores would provide information about the quality of the education provided by the school. But it turned out that they didn't.[/quote]

I did. It has nothing to do with what we discuss here. People can choose to believe what they believe. Test scores certainly are not EVERYTHING. Yet it shows one aspect of the school. If I don't know anything about two schools other than test scores, it is more likely (no one can be certain) that a school with high test scores is more preferred. If, instead, you have some specific information about certain schools, of course you may consider it. But it takes time and effort to find out about these, and these information does not in anyway, make the test scores useless.

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