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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep.  There are a whole lot of hypocrites on this website that's for sure.[/quote]

+1. I find it so funny that they are so defensive about their hypocrisy. Yes, dear, you purchased a 1.2 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft home in upper NW “for the schools”. We all know what you mean.  But, hey, you went to a BLM protest and have a little sign in your yard.[/quote]

Exactly. That’s the point. Nice white liberal parents that get offended when they get called out on their inconsistencies [/quote]

Do you send your child to a school where literally none of the kids are on grade level? [/quote]

You're such a toad, I haven't seen a single school where NONE of the kids are on grade level. Oh and that's what differentiated instruction is for. duh. But that would make mini Karen's IQ go down if she was near the poors.[/quote]

I’m not going to name schools here, but there are schools with no 4s or 5s in PARCC for math, in particular. Whether you send your kid to a school with no, or almost no, kids on grade level is a real question for DC parents, including for parents whose kids are not on grade level. That’s why this is so hard.[/quote]

Interesting that you think standardized testing, which has proven to be a poor measure time and time again is an indication of a child actually knowing a skill. [/quote]

+100.  Parents constantly cite test scores for schools. It absurd and reflects only parental income.[/quote]

Actually, it reflects whether the test takers can answer questions correctly.

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Actually it reflects how well they can take a test. But I'm sure you already knew this.[/quote]
The test is used as a proxy for educational attainment.

When NCLB was proposed, it received the support of a large portion of the CBC. The foundational part of NCLB is school accountability based on testing. PARCC testing is a direct result and a legal requirement of NCLB.

Leaving PARCC aside, I am curious if you could propose an alternative objective measure to assess educational attainment. I would also like to understand how you would try to use that assessment to measure attainment without some form of standardization. [/quote]

Standardized testing by itself isn’t the devil if the questions are culturally inclusive. However, parcc disrupts my Dcps middle school for 6 straight weeks. The SAT matters far more and can be taken in a morning. Why must PARCC take 7-8 days per kid?[/quote]
You failed to answer my question, but I am curious wow you would propose that a standardized math test be more culturally inclusive? [/quote]

When the math questions are about high and low tide or the angle of a ski slope, not all kids will be able to process that in the same way if they’ve not experienced it themselves. And I do support shorter standardized tests, just ones that take a day or two rather than multiple weeks.[/quote]
Lol what? I’m quite and have never skied nor had I been to the beach until I was 16. I am good at test taking. I agree tests need to be reconfigured and biases removed, but these examples are not them. [/quote]

I don’t think the PARCC is biased. I do think the amount of time they take is excessive, and they incentivize teaching to the test. But overall they are an important way to measure how kids and schools are doing. The fact that some DCPS HS have 0% math passing - and only a handful of 3s even! - is really atrocious. It indicates that the school as a whole is so lost that they have given up even pretending that they are teaching math, at all. So much so that they don’t even bother to try to get anyone to pass.[/quote]

Part of the problem is who they are testing.  They only test in 9th and 10th grade in high school and not the kids that are taking the most advanced math so they do not test the strongest math students.  My child took geometry in 8th grade, she would not be tested on math in high school as they only test up to algebra I and geometry.[/quote]

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