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I highly doubt you work at GW.

Virtual students were SOL tested on different days than hybrid, yes, but it was a matter of staggering by several days, not weeks and weeks. And since the virtual students were concurrently taught with hybrid, the exact same material was covered by the exact same teachers. Even breakout groups were a mix of kids that were there, and kids that were home.

There was a prioritization matrix for return to school in hybrid, rather than SOLs that let some students come in before others (and NO, it did NOT include all students with IEPs going in earlier, irrespective of whether they were in special education classes).

Students that remained virtual were given the option to not take the SOLs by default while those who returned to school for hybrid instruction were automatically opted in to take the exam.

You had a prioritization matrix that prioritized statistically disadvantaged students to return to in person learning because of the difficulties they experienced with virtual learning and then made them take the SOL unless their parents wanted to opt them out (unlike virtual whose parents had to OPT IN).

I'm not sure what's difficult for your to understand. Vastly different percentages of students took the test this year. Disadvantaged students did not have the opportunities to learn virtually the same way that others did, despite what you saw happening in breakout rooms.

I'm telling you this because I work at GW and can tell you that in a normal school year that the SOL passing scores are off-set by white, upper middle class students (the very same who did not get prioritized to return and whose parents did not have them sit for SOLs) and if that is hard for you to understand then you're living in a fantasy world.

Probably, but not certainly, wrong with respect to percentage of disdvantaged kids taking the test this year v. previous year. Maybe Alexandria was somehow different. https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/sorry-educrats-...-sol-numbers-are-truly-dismal/[/quote]

Also, many more upper middle class white parents opted their kids into hybird than other demographics, unless you have something to show to that ACPS was different than basically every single other school district in the country in that regard.  Stop being an apologist for ACPS.[/quote]

DP.  I agree with you that "many more upper middle class white parents opted their kids into hybrid than other demographics" although it is with the caveat that your statement is true only for some of the elementary schools.  Your statement is quite untrue for the middle schools.

In the middle schools, low SES children who had low DL attendance and were on the D & F lists for the first 3 quarters were disproportionately represented during hybrid and the SOLs because they were prioritized by the school system to return to school.  The early numbers of returns to school were so low that counselors, social workers, school psychologists and principals had to reach out to parents and guardians to practically demand that those students return to school.  One teacher I spoke with said that even in May they had a teacher/staff ** ratio of 2 or 3 to 1.

Regardless since a high percentage of the school system's low SES children are children of color that means that black and Hispanic children were disproportionately represented for the SOL results.  As we all know, family SES is a strong influence on a student's performance on standardized tests such that students from low SES families perform significantly worse on standardized tests than their middle- to high-SES family peers.

I agree with the GW teacher and I most certainly am not an apologist for ACPS.  I am, however, not willing to let you hoodwink people into believing something that isn't true.  The data for SOLs is significantly skewed and cannot be used for anything other than a participation (attendance may be the right word here?) level.[/quote]

**teacher/staff [b]to student[/b] ratio of 2 or 3 to 1[/quote]

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