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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Why do parents want to know this kind of information?

The important thing is for your child to be learning. Why so much interest in how other kids are doing? In what way does the rate at which other kids are learning affect your child?

Duh, you want to make sure your kid is doing OK. Not a big deal.

So that their child will have a peer reading group and generally peers on their level, or at least grade level. So that they know the teacher is not overburdened trying to catch up a ton of below-grade kids and no time for the kids who are above grade. That is our situation and it sucks.

Every school has kids below level, on level and above level. I taught in one of the wealthiest schools in the country and I had two groups of below grade level students in guided reading. I still did guided reading with my on level and above level groups and had extension centers for those above.

So I'm really trying to understand the point of showing every parent the chart of the class. Unless it's trying to create competition. Or trying to "motivate" lower students?[/quote]

Agree with others that this class-specific bar chart is a terrible idea. It would be much better to know how your child was faring compared to peers on a national basis, such as with standardized tests, than with the class they are in, which [b]could be a very skewed group.
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Exactly!  Especially at our under-enrolled school where there are only 15 kids in her first grade class.  That's the saving grace that allows her enough one-on-one instruction even though the teacher has to work really hard to bring the other kids up to grade.[/quote]

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