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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If anything, the lower scores on the PARCC English tests reveal the intelligence of the student body. Many of the students were not persuaded by the school's persistent entreaties that the standardized tests were important (to the students), in terms of grades, college prospects, or well-being. The students simply do not care what the PARCC results may show for teacher or school accountability, or for purposes of comparing Wilson to other schools. So instead they chose to rush through the PARCC so they could return to studying for AP tests, their regular classes, or devote time to their clubs and other extra activities. And the students with other more important classes and projects to work on were more likely to finish the 90 minute test in 10 minutes. Simple as that. It is not a reflection on Ms. Martin (except for her failure to recognize much earlier that the timing of the PARCC tests so close to AP exams was a huge blunder). It is the same old problem with how to measure teacher and school performance with a standardized test that students have zero incentive to try to ace.[/quote]

But Wilson students were not hte only ones juggling AP exams and PARCC -- both PARCC and the APs have 3 week long testing windows.

Students in Montgomery County, Banneker, SWW and BASIS, to name just a few, all had the same conflicts and apparently most of them made a different choice to not blow off PARCC.

To me it says something about the parents of these students and the messages they are sending their students. Parents have much more influence over their students than a principal does. [/quote]

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