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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I too am a parent in DC - and am not opposed to testing my kid on materials learned- And agree with some comments this is a faculty problem there is limited communication with the parents on what is going on with the kids unless you ask and even then it is subpar- I am a single parent and can say I am all up in what is going on with my kid and when they dropped the ball I started asking questions as to what happened and why as I made it clear from day one what I expected and what I expected my daughter to get out of her school year and education.

I don't have all the answers but the schools are getting away from teaching our kids and more concentrating on testing our kids be it for whatever reason - I am not 100% ok with it.. my kid took the DC CAS fine last year but the school prep them during the school year and had Saturday school for four hours in the morning up till when the DC CAS started. Now majority of these test are half what the kids learned during the year and half of what they have not learned. And yes I do have a problem testing my kid on something she has not learned if she has not been properly prepared or able to have some sort of study resources. So with the prep she was given last year a lot of the pressure was taken off from testing.

my daughter is test prepping by being given packets - and I have been told she will be graded on said packets but I have seen the sample questions on the practice test and the test prep her school is doing is nothing that I feel would prepare her for the test and only doing two weeks worth of prep that has nothing to do with what will be on her actual test.

The interim tests that are given are the same way I learned that my daughter GPA was being affected on testing on things she had not been taught-- Again I am all for testing but fairly tested on what she has learned

Again I don't have the answers but I encourage all the parents to set on your computers and do a practice Parcc test in Math and Literacy and understand what your kid will be going through- again it is not the testing that I have I think this test has no real statistics as to how it will help our kids its a work in progress as one parent said it is a train wreck.  There were some questions that could have been a couple answers - just don't think it was thought out

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Thank you so much for posting.  This is my experience exactly.[/quote]

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