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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly those actions preclude private school tuition. Whenever they get a sinking sense that they are somehow shortchanging their child, they tend to post comments like the one above.[/quote]

If you want to go down the route of comparing private to public, then it's important to keep in mind that tests/stats are for public schools what money is for private schools, both media leading to occasional cognitive dissonance. If you pay you like to believe that what you buy must be worth something. If you've tests lined up, you like to believe they mean something. In overall scheme of things, I find tests a somewhat more reliable tool, even if I need to put a little of my spare time and higher-order insight into its thinking (and over-thinking) it.  (I'm the Maury parent who may be over-thinking the general caveats as noted earlier.) 
Among the many reasons I feel comfortable with our children in DC public school (in our case despite two comfortable jobs and zero-debt balance in our lives) is because I get my children's learning recorded black-on-white, with everyone - teachers, parents, students even - comparing results in a meaningful, critical, and civilized way, trying to make sense of it and going back to adjust and learn, no codling and no two ways about it. I can only speak for our ES context, but I actually don't see tests leading to students hating school. Indeed, many very much like to know where they stand and even enjoy taking tests.

(p.s. No, special ed children are not reported separately, not anyway if you look at the AYP scores used to compare schools and determine "adequate" progress.)[/quote]

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