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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle school ELA teacher here. If your student is one that regularly struggles in those classes, or has been a “bubble” kid in terms of standardized testing, then I would reach out to the teacher about additional support (interventions or the like) that is available. Otherwise, if your student is normally average/high achieving (SOL scores around 425+) I wouldn’t be concerned. At my school, we had almost four straight weeks of testing in January between the VGAs for English and math, and the insane NWEA mid year assessments for ELA/math that took almost an entire week to complete due to the length. Kids were BURNED OUT. Even my highest achieving students were simply not invested, and while they still did well, many scores went down because of fatigue or lack of buy-in. [/quote]

TOO MUCH TESTING.[/quote]
VGAs are redundant and should be dropped.[/quote]

Ummmm… that’s a state-mandated test. Hence the V for Virginia in VGA. The NWA MAP, on the other hand… I’m curious as to whether that’s just an Arlington thing. Many school districts use it but not all. But I certainly agree with you, PP — these are redundant and we don’t need both.[/quote]

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