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I just skimmed your post but it takes a half a second to recognize that if your child is I then the are behind.  There's nothing about 2.0 that hides the fact that a child isn't up to speed.  If you already knew they were behind the terra nova wouldn't help you.[/quote]

This story is exactly happened to us.   After years of suspicion and some independent testing we discovered there was a learning disability that prevented progress in reading.  It took a lot of our own initiative and constant communication with the school to confirm this problem.  There is no way to convince the school there is a problem without some kind of independent testing.   When you take away tools like Tera Nova, you now have no tools to communicate with the school.  If the school doesn't want to deal with you, they just keep saying your kid is on-grade level when almost every kid is on-grade level and when it takes you enormous effort in working with your child at home to keep them on-grade level.

This is why testing and grades and report cards are important.   Your feelings and your sense, don't really count in MCPS world.

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Agree that getting rid of the Terra Nova is of no consequence.  Starting in third grade kids take the MSAs and the MAP-R and MAP-M are still given.  These are the only tests I've ever seen or heard of the schools acting on if scores were low.

As to your experience, PP, this is not a 2.0 issue.  All of the parents of SN kids I know have the same complaint - that it took independent testing to discover learning disabilities and we are pre-2.0 parents.  And, I don't think it takes testing and grades for us parents to realize our kids are having problems.  The testing and grades may confirm our suspicions, but I have not yet met the parent who discovered his/her child's disability through grades and testing.  Finally, you may think grades in ES meant something, but in reality MCPS gave weighted grades in pre-2.0.  It isn't until MS that your kids get the grades they actually earn. [/quote]

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