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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]83 kids took the algebra PARCC last year at MacFarland. Ten tested proficient. Do you think the school is calling a class "algebra" but actually teaching it at a lower level (and maybe those 10 kids are teaching themselves or supplementing), or do you think they're putting a lot of kids in a class that's just way too hard for them? [/quote]

I would think there is an Algebra class and it has 10 kids in it, or maybe like 15 and some didn't do as well on the test.

I don't think we should put kids in a class that's truly too hard, but if someone *almost* got a 4, it doesn't feel inappropriate that they had the opportunity to try. [/quote]

23 got a 1.
29 got a 2.
21 got a 3.

You can also see that this is what they're doing by looking at the students in Grade 8 math, who overwhelmingly got 1s and 2s. So they're definitely putting all the kids who are close to grade level in algebra so that the kids in grade 8 math are overwhelmingly very behind.

So do you think that the algebra class is being taught in a way that's much too hard for most of the students, or do you think it's being taught in a way that's not really appropriate for the handful of kids who are ready to take algebra? [/quote]

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