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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.[/quote]

I don't disagree.  And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break.  I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.  [/quote]

Or maybe DC will just drop PARCC like every other state in the US already has.[/quote]

And do you think the score would be different if they administered a different test? When will you finally get it? If it's not PARCC it'll be something else and the scores will still be the same and the rankings won't change.[/quote]

Any other test would take fewer days to administer, meaning more time to actually teach.  So there’s that.[/quote]

If you think the problem is the extra 2 days to take PARCC then you must not have a kid in school. Between PJ days, movie days, equity days, days preceding school vacations and all manner of days that aren't fully utilized there's simply no rational argument that the extra days of PARC vs another test are materially related to performance. [/quote]

Are you stating we should take all the fun out of elementary school and start instruction day 1?  Because I’m sure doing those things will definitely raise the scores. 🙄[/quote]

Me thinks you would not get a 4 or 5 on the PARCC ELA. I was replying to the person who suggested that the length of PARCC was somehow contributing to poor scores because the test was multiple days long. My point was that the extra 2 or 3 days is nothing in comparison to the wasted days throughout.  [/quote]

I am the person to whom you were responding, and your analysis is off.  I was not saying that 2 more days to teach would measurably improve scores.

I just see any days spent testing beyond what is necessary as a waste of time.  Every other state and all states pre-PARCC thinks shorter tests are enough.  I’d rather the kids do something, anything, other than waste time on excess standardized tests.[/quote]

I may be misunderstanding your reply, but it sounds like you present a false choice: either spend time focuses on the test of get bad results and worry about larger issue. BASIS does PARCC in like 2 days and moves on. Their scores are better than [insert name of your school here]. Maybe the point is that prepping only for PARCC instead of having a rigorous curriculum and standards is a better use of time than just working to get test results.

No matter what test is used, many schools are going to try to work the test as a way to mask over gaps. I don't know any way around that.[/quote]

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