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So you can find out in sixth grade that your kid basically stopped understanding math in fourth grade? There may be value in adjusting the format of the test, but some kind of evaluation at the end of each year to make sure children are continuing to progress against a standard baseline ([b]as opposed to whatever the teacher decides is enough) is critical to holding school systems accountable and making sure children don't fall through the cracks. [/quote]
  
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Sad statement that a parent has so little faith in the teachers.  Almost seems like he/she has no faith in the system at all.  Gee, I wonder how we all learned math without all this standardized testing.

FYI, the teachers are the best judge.
 
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PP here, you've never had an experience with a teacher who was checked out? I've had some wonderful teachers and did well in those years, standardized tests wouldn't have been an issue because I learned a lot. But I also had a third grade teacher who was completely checked out, who literally let all of us do independent study all year for math and reading (here's your workbook and your reader, do as much as you'd like, let me know if you have questions) and gave me perfect grades despite the fact that I never turned in a single assigned project. I got nothing out of that year. My sister was written off year and year by teachers through elementary school due to undiagnosed learning disabilities, it wasn't until fifth grade that a teacher took and interest and realized what was really going on. She was terribly behind by that point, and since the school wasn't acknowledging it, my mother didn't realize it. And this was in a top school system.

How we use those assessments (e.g., how they relate to teacher performance standards) may need some tweaking, but I absolutely think it's in kids' best interests to have regular standardized tests to make sure children are actually learning what they need to know to progress and can't fall through the cracks due to sheer (willful?) ignorance.[/quote]

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