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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also next year the new law will be going into effect, whereby SOLs will be administered in the last two weeks of the school year and they will count for 10% of the students’ grade. So learning will be continuing much longer next year. Enjoy![/quote]

That was clearly done by a group of people who are far far removed from schools.  Unless they are counting for graduation, kids are going to blow those off.  No one wants to sit for exams the last 2 weeks of school. Did those lawmakers ever see or live with a child in the last 10 years?[/quote]

Have you ever heard of final exams?  They literally are the last week of the school year.  And as noted above, they count for 10% of the class grade.[/quote]

Again, do you know schools?  The majority of SOLs are given to ELEMENTARY and MIDDLE school kids who could not possibly care less about them by the end of June when the pools are open.  Talking about regents exams and finals that are for high schoolers is not the same thing as discussing your 8-12 year olds taking tests.[/quote]

Well that is just not true. High schoolers have to take SOLs too. And they count for verified credit and will count for 10% of their grade. The only difference is the stakes are higher.[/quote]

Yes it is true.  Most SOLs are taken by Elementary and Middle schoolers.  They ALWAYS count. In elementary they only count for the school rankings (which only emphasizes my point that the elementary school kids will not care about them at all). I high school they count for the kids as graduation requirements and the school rankings. This is how companies like great schools get ratings.

In grads 3-8 Kids take 16 SOLs. Kids in high school only need to take 5 for graduation and some kids take those in middle school. [/quote]

The SOLs in elementary and middle school do not count and have no bearing on anything related to the student’s grade or graduation requirements. Parents can actually opt them out if they wish.

In high school they are important for the verified credit you need for graduation. And starting next year they will count as 10% of the final grade.[/quote]

I agree. SOLs in elementary and some middle schools count for the schools rating, not for the children. Many/most families look at a schools overall rating when looking at schools for their children.  Moving the SOLs to the last two weeks gives elementary kids even less incentive to put effort into the exams particularly because they only count for school ratings and the children directly. It was a dumb move. [/quote]

SOL scores aren’t designed to boost home values.  [/quote]

And yet, that is how the system works. You can look at “how things are supposed to be” like state representatives did and design bad policies, or you can look at how things actually work and people actually function and design policies that meet real world needs.

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