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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course they care. But wr can’t take the test for them so “helping them improve” can have varying outcomes. There are 3 main groups of students who consistently fail their SOL:

1. Chronically truant. What are we supposed to do? You don’t come to school so you don’t learn the material. We can’t remediate when you don’t have any knowledge of the content. This group is the hardest to help “improve.”

2. ESL. They will take it twice, fail, and then take Workkeys instead which is more appropriate for their skills and gets them the verified credit.

3. Sped. They can pass with a lower score than the benchmark. Can be tough but doable with remediation. [/quote]

What about the regular child who does not fit into any of those categories? Lots of children without learning disabilities still fail SOLs. Even in high SES schools with well educated and highly motivated parents..[/quote]

No, not really. Not lots.[/quote]

Wow, what a jerk.[/quote]

Few students without learning difficulties fail SOLs in elementary school. I’m not sure about the secondary level. [/quote]
Something like 30% of children fail the math SOL every year per VDOE - are 30% of children learning disabled? [/quote]

Math is completely different. A lot of kids math because the math sequence is horrendous. It doesn’t give kids time to properly learn steps and foundational skills because it’s rushing them up to calculus for some god forsaken reason. Way too many parents also pit their kids in the wrong math because they want them to hit pre-Calc in high school despite the fact they don’t have foundational algebraic skills. That’s why the math fail rate is so high.

Most of the other fail scores are attributable to the original three reasons I stated on page one: chronic truancy, learning disabilities, ESL, or, a combo of 2 or 3 of those since they tend to go hand in hand. I am a high school teacher btw. [/quote]

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