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[quote=Anonymous]Not only is it totally boilerplate...in my experience, a lot of those boilerplate responses early in the year seem to be deliberately wrong - crediting more advanced students with knowing far less than they actually do so the report cards can then show learning "progress" later in the year, thus meeting the all-important "growth" metric required of their teachers without having learned a damn thing.

(I have mentioned this experience before on this board and been assured that this couldn't possibly be the case...that even though the entire system is set up precisely to reward just such gaming of the report cards, this situation must be unique to my charter. Which uses the same report cards and teacher assessment metrics as everyone else in the system. Yeah, that must be it. The whole school system uses a simple dropdown menu for report cards/student assessment, with no ability to enter unique language around the learning attainment of individual students and a job-dependent annual requirement of movement from lower levels of this simple dropdown to higher levels...a dynamic that overtly disincentivizes honest reporting of any students who begin the year at the highest level....but it must just be one teacher in one school who's figured that out. This boilerplate language otherwise applies with pinpoint accuracy to every other student in DCPS.)[/quote]

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