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[quote=Anonymous][/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]

Wow.  I am the parent of a mixed race (white and black) disabled student on an IEP.  That you would try to make it appear that the failure of ACPS in giving adequate instruction to all students, including students like my son, is actually just disabled, minority, and lower income students dragging SOLs down, is appalling.  Did we cause ACPS to offer no meaningful services in virtual?  I don't think so.

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