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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid failed the 5th grade reading SOL by a couple of points, retook it, and passed. It didn't seem to be a big deal. He's a smart kid (got advanced pass on the math), just messed up the reading test for some reason. They only offered retakes to the kids who they thought would pass, I think, not to the kids who failed by a lot--those kids went to summer school and then retook the test at the end of the summer. I think he ended up with 450 on reading, which is still not great but whatever.

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Should add--we go to a Title 1 school. They need every passing grade they can get. I can live with my kid sitting through another test if it means the school looks a little better, and a passing grade is accurately reflective of his actual knowledge/performance. [/quote]

Would you feel differently at a school with high scores?[/quote]

Probably not, because I see myself as part of a community, and for now taking and reporting SOL scores is part of what the community does. What OP said:

[quote=Anonymous]I always say no because I don’t want my child missing instructional time just to boost the school’s pass rate. If my child didn’t pass, well then she didn’t pass.[/quote]

is both privilege in action and a classic free rider situation. My guess is that OP has no concerns about her school's [i]overall[/i] ranking suffering because her kid didn't pass, so she isn't going to make [i]her[/i] kid miss instructional time in order to retake the test. She gets the benefit of a school that passes [u]and[/u] a kid that doesn't miss class. I'm not that kind of person. [/quote]

Wait, I'm a bad person for not forcing my kid to sit through a retake of the standardized test that the school didn't adequately prepare them for the first time?  Sorry, no.  Standardized tests are generally pointless bullshit, and I wouldn't make my kid sit through them the first time, were that an option.

I see all sorts of batshit moralizing here, but asserting superiority over SOL retakes may be a new record.[/quote]

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