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Look at the actual questions and answers on the test--not the labeled content areas they are supposed to represent.  [/quote]
They seem pretty reasonable to me. I could see a kid overthinking a few of the reading questions and getting a few more wrong than they should have.  I can't imagine how or why an advanced child would get enough wrong to fall below 450.  Likewise, the math questions just look like math.  Kids who are not getting pass advanced on the math SOLs have some significant gaps in their understanding of math.  They need to spend more time with the material and not be pushed ahead.

My kids scored pass advanced on all of their SOLs.  It's not a huge hurdle.  At the very least, if both the SOL score and teacher indicate that a child would be better served in gen ed, the child should be removed from AAP.  [/quote]

My kid's best friend in AAP is brilliant in math He can explain math concepts and solve spatial problems at a very high level--he intuitively seems to use calculus etc. He's regularly solves competition style math problems. But ask him to do basic 3-4th grade computation and his work is riddled with errors--he just flubs up a lot.  Not this thing.  If he uses a calculator he can do higher level math, but he would likely not pass the elementary math SOL.  Kids at the higher end can be really quirky and uneven in their performance.  They still need advanced educational supports.  SO definitely there needs to be multiple measures besides the SoL[/quote]

As all my math major friends used to say "Math is not arithmetic." There are real differences in the way the brain does basic computation and the higher level math you find in upper division college classes like differential equations.[/quote]

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