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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the scores reflect that students didn’t have the chance to cover all the topics tested in the MAP it suggests that students who did well were receiving outside instruction and/or have a natural aptitude that transcends formal instruction. If they were receiving outside / supplemental instruction, good for them. But that obviously creates an equity issue and seems patently unfair to children who did well in the topics covered and May, in fact, have the ability to be in the 90th percentile, but didn’t have the outside support (perhaps because parents can’t provide or weren’t aware of the criticality of that support) to overcome what wasn’t covered in class. Either way, MCPS doing this after a year of remote learning stinks. [/quote]
I honestly do not understand or comprehend the suggestion that “outside instruction” is an equity problem.

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Sure it is. If you have money, time, resources, and an insider perspective of how these tests really work and what they dictate (your child’s opportunities and educational track), then you are at an advantage that those who don’t have the aforementioned aren’t. That’s an equity problem.

Moreover, our teachers present MAP tests as some benign pulse check on student progress, not a tool that literally determines your child’s educational opportunities. That’s a transparency problem, particularly when in my DC’s case we’ve been told how magnificently he’s doing in compacted math and that he has an aptitude for math. So why is he merely at 68th percentile despite getting As in every math subject covered this year? If his low score is a result of the fact, which apparently it is, that the school didn’t flag that some of the MAP content wasn’t covered in class and so parents should make it up outside of school - that’s inherently a disadvantage.

I’m confident my kid isn’t alone. The PPs who are crowing about how excluding kids make sense just enjoy being exclusionary; their kids are in. They enjoy that others are left out - even kids who could succeed and thrive at math 5/6 if given the opportunity. [/quote]

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