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[quote=Anonymous][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]

No, the whole system is bad, as some schools are labeled "failing" based on SOL scores, but not the schools where people say "the school failed to adequately prepare my child" or where people believe their school did a great job because of high SOL scores. But if THOSE schools started to "fail," which would affect property values, I bet parents would suddenly start caring about things like retakes a whole lot. [/quote]

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