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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What grade? ES it doesn't matter. HS does have some classes that you have to pass the SOL.

If your kid is in ES, I would look at practice questions and help her get comfortable with the format. She has to pass some eventually, use this as practice for taking this type of test. [/quote]

Nope.  This should be happening at school. Not at home. Signed FCPS teacher [/quote]

I am not a big fan of letting my child fail when I can help them pass. I would rather take the time to teach my child test taking skills so that they learn how to take a test properly because at some point in time, they need to be able to pass standardized tests on a computer. Allowing my kid to develop test anxiety is not acceptable. [/quote]

Kids feel terrible when they don't do well on the sols. Everybody knows because those kids get pulled out for additional "training".

I volunteered a lot in my kids classes in ES and the school - teachers and admins absolutely were the ones pushing the anxiety on the kids. The teachers were so stressed about the results that they had all the kids in knots. It infuriated me to see it. The principal, who was a nut, tried to tell the kids they wouldn't graduate and move to the next grade if they "failed".  I agree with pp there is a lot of value in getting kids used to these type of tests so I would find a way to work on this with tutors or do it myself but I would make it clear to my kids that I don't take these tests seriously at all. My kids knew these were kind of a joke.  [/quote]

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