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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They occur about a month before the school year ends, then there is a lot of wasted time for those last few weeks.

I would have less of an objection if they all occured the second from last week of school.[/quote]

I actually like the timing since my kids' [b]teachers have used that month after SOL to get to units on topics not emphasized by the SOLs, like science in 4th grade.[/b]

I think the SOLs are a good thing as done in our school -- there doesn't seem to be excessive time on "test prep."  The kids are asked to do some review at home which is appropriate.  It's not everything but is a valuable data point to see how your kid/school/district is doing.  When my DS was going into 6th he had a bad day on the day of the math placement test and was not placed in higher level math for 6th, despite very high math SOLs and being ID'd as gifted in math for several years in ES.  Having that score history helped make the case that they should overlook the bad placement test and he's handled Math 7 fine as I expected. [/quote]

this right here is one of the major problems with the SOLs. A year's worth of science crammed into the last 4 weeks of school. Why? Because it's not tested in 4th grade.[/quote]

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