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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in APS second grade, so I think these SOL and VGA tests start next year, but I haven't heard anything about them. I'm trying to get a sense of how much they matter: what's at stake, what downstream decisions depend on the scores? Thanks for humoring such a basic, clueless question.[/quote]

They don’t really matter except they can identify an at risk kid who needs intervention. What matters most is passing the SOL at the end of the year, and meeting Dibels and map benchmarks. And in 3rd even the first vga is based on grade level material since there are no 2nd grade SOL tests.[/quote]

DP. And really, passing the SOL at the elementary level only matters for the school, not the individual child, with the exception that the 5th grade math SOL informs 6th grade math placement. Seeing your kid’s SOL score might be informative, but nothing “happens” if they fail in elementary. In fact, parents are free to opt their kids out of SOLs.

In high school, though, students must pass some SOLs to graduate. [/quote]

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