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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see no issues with sharing scores, if that is what the kids want.  Kids share all sorts of achievements and it's about time kids can take some pride in their scores.  Children who make it to elite travel soccer teams didn't get there by kicking around in their backyard.  Their parents "enriched them". [b] If kids got high MAP-M scores because they got enrichment, I'm okay with them taking pride in that too.[/b]  (FWIW, it's much harder to do well on MAP-R than MAP-M)

Last week, DS told me a kid at his school ran a 2-minute mile, and DS was so impress.  Kids can make up all sorts of stuff, so you can always tell your kid that if Larlo said he got a 720 on his MAP-M, perhaps he is not so good with his numbers so take what kids say with a grain of salt.

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The difficulty with this is some children have no access to enrichment.  Their peers adjust expectations for each other (as do teachers) based on these 3x yearly scores.  Expectations are often self proving.  So, seems unfair to have a system that is effectively a public ranking of quite young children. [/quote]

Also, I think you are talking about the one-off, where someone is so poor they don't have access to a computer at all.  Most parents I know at our school have cell phones.  Most parents I know have at least laptop at home that they can share with their kids if the kid likes to access resources.  The library is also free for all to use.  If the library is not available, there are online library of free books that kids can access to read.  Kids can also borrow books from their school library.  [/quote]

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