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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were literally dozens of public meetings with parents and experts debating the relative weighting of proficiency vs growth.

OSSE's first proposed rating didn't weight growth more than proficiency, and they changed it based on overwhelming feedback from most people who bothered to show up.
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That doesn't surprise me.  I'm sure the universe of people who knew both that the meetings were happening and the issues actually being discussed was quite small.

It's the classic conundrum of special interests versus the common good overlaid with lots of jargon/terms of art.[/quote]

I had no idea they were happening, and if I had, I would not have been able to attend an in-person set of meetings of unclear benefit to my family.

This is just like how our school added this February break supposedly based on parent demand, but failed to note that the respondents themselves to the survey were a special interest group of their own. This is not satisfying common interests nor is it somehow "democratic".

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