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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone mentioned earlier that if you say no to a retake in ES, the kid doesn’t even have to know they didn’t pass... is this true or would their teacher/principal talk to them about it? Do they see their scores some other way? Or is it 100% possible they’ll never have to know and stress out about it[/quote]

Our ES puts a copy of the score report in the envelope with the final report card.  So unless your kid is one of the rare few not tearing into that thing on the bus on the way home, they're probably going to find out.

As far as whether I'd allow a retake, I have.  My younger kid missed passing her first ever SOL (math) by one question.  I knew that she was more than capable of passing, and that she'd be devastated to learn she'd failed (yeah, my kid is one of the ones who opens the report card on the bus).  Sure enough, her score increased significantly on the retake and that was without remediation.  If that benefits the school, great, but my only motivation was my kid feeling confident in her abilities and the retake accomplished that.[/quote]

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