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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]the respondents themselves to the survey were a special interest group of their own[/b]. This is not satisfying common interests nor is it somehow "democratic".

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First time hearing this (although I like the two breaks).  Who were they?[/quote]

I'm just saying that there is a greater motivation to respond to the survey to create change in the status quo, than to respond based on liking status quo. So the special interest group is those parents who wanted the Feb break. It is just like in Yelp when almost all reviews are either glowing or damning. You have to be pretty motivated.

And in this case, it's those parents who want growth measured more highly than proficiency.

And in other situations it's just whoever shows up to the ANC (ahem, old retired people with no kids in the system) meeting and yammers on about something long enough. For instance.[/quote]

I know this is off topic and I may be misremembering but I don't think the February break was even an option on the survey. But I hear you on not being able to attend even if I knew when the meeting was - stuff always seems to happen. I think it'd be interesting if they had more forums online/as a call-in/etc. [/quote]

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