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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an elementary APS teacher. Our students performed pretty much as we expected in a normal year. Which is to say, higher SES kids passed as always, lower SES kids had more struggles, and more variability in students with IEP’s depending on the individual. We didn’t see big drops as a whole.[/quote]

That’s probably true for higher SES kids whose families pursued tutors/pods, or who had the time to teach and/or reinforce all the material outside of school hours. I didn’t think my kid missing half a year of instruction in 4th grade, and then having a very slow paced instruction that focused on the students at the bottom, below grade level, and only being offered “enrichment” that was appropriate for my kid as solo optional work could possibly result in good SOL scores, and I was correct. My spouse insisted we not push our kid since kid would be even more bored if advanced too far beyond the struggling peers.  :roll: So I let it go, didn’t have the energy to fight, and this was a crazy year and everyone gets a pass. But I was right, in the end, as the kid’s scores show. And I’m not going to listen to spouse any longer about holding our capable kid back to fit with peers. That’s a ridiculous mentality, and not one that most other parents in our SES position in Arlington take, as you have noted. [/quote]

Are you in APS? How do you have your students scores?[/quote]

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