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Really, that's your argument?  That I've got an imaginary kid?  .[/quote]

I don't know (or care) whether you have a kid or not.     But is very unlikely your kid said all the things you said she did. And you might be
a parent, but you are also very likely an MCPS employee.      Here are a couple of the reasons why I believe this.    (There are several  more but I don't want to reveal all my secrets...:-)

1.   Your "kid" talks like an professional in education.    "My kid tells  me they get all the non-county formative assessments back." "My kid
 says that there is also a retake policy in place for other classes like science and language, and that while summatives and county-level formatives  are not returned to be kept in student binders, they get  them back in class."     That doesn't sound like any 13 year old that I know.       And why do you need your kid to tell you what is returned home -- don't you see it yourself?

2.   You don't talk like a parent.    This thread was started by parents who are frustrated that tests and quizzes are not being returned home. From a parent's viewpoint, there is *zero* downside to having tests returned.   They can always be thrown in the trash if the parent or child are not interested in looking at them.    But test might also 
help a parent monitor her child's work, or help a child review their mistakes.    The most a parent might say is "I recognize that MCPS sometimes has conflicting commitments and 
because of their need to ensure secure uniform grading procedures, I understand that it is not possible to return all tests."

But an MCPS employee might view this thread as criticism and react defensively.     And the reaction might be a non-sequitur 
about the four step process in her MS to retake tests.     (And this retake process is both "completely transparent" and "meant to be burdensome so kids don't just screw around.")

3.   It is very rare -- even on DCUM - for a parent to constantly refer to the child that she brought up from infancy as "My kid".
(The plural form "kids" is always fine, and of course it is fine to refer to somebody else's kid.)

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Hilarious.  I'm a fake parent because I call my kid a kid.  And sorry that I (and my "child" -- better?) use the vocabulary used in the policies that the school distributes at BTSN and uses in emails and meetings we attend.  I read.  I listen.  I'm not automatically looking to call out the school for lying or obfuscating.  My kid -- sorry, my child -- retook a test using the procedure outlined in the policy I restyled above, and it was a good learning experience.  Funny how you complain that every county assessment doesn't come home to you for parental dissection with your child in the comfort of your home and at your leisure, but my child reviewing her earlier test, correcting the errors, doing more practice questions with me, and employing the reinforced learning to retake the test to confirm her improved understanding -- is wrong and ridiculous.

No, notwithstanding your impeccable logic and investigatory skills (sarcasm alert), I am a Real Live Parent who actually lives in Montgomery County and has a child at Pyle and has never been a teacher or any other employee (or even a consultant) of MCPS.  I'm a lawyer, so I like words, enjoy logical arguments, and evidence.  You don't have to believe me -- that's fine.  The fact that you feel the need to discount every single person that says something you refuse to believe as merely an MCPS shill says much more about the veracity and worth of your posts than about anyone else's.[/quote]

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