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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would we want to boycott the SOL? [/quote]

Main reason - the state shouldn't be testing students to see what they know and what they don't know.  second we need FCPS to  have test score to keep dropping because it will mean we will have a chance of winning school board seats, and we will have a say on the Superintendent .[/quote]

The people I knew who were part of OpenFCPS back in the day absolutely valued the state testing students to see what they know and don't know in order to show the gaps in what FCPS was or wasn't teaching. Are you a troll?[/quote]

True. The people I know who can’t stand the board point to evidence of decreased learning as one of their reasons.

You need some sort of measurement for that.[/quote]

Yes and since they can't demonstrate that via the actual standardized tests, they are trying to manufacture the appearance of decline by getting parents to opt out.

I hate the way schools prep for SOLs and would consider opting out for student anxiety reasons, but [b]trying to gain board seats by encouraging families to opt out of the test is silly[/b]. [/quote]

I don't care for the board and my [b]kids are only in elementary so the SOLs are a pretty non-issue in our house[/b], but I'm 100% with you on the bolded. Not only would it hurt some kids (like those who might be eligible for advanced math based on a pass advanced), but it won't gain a single board seat in a million years.[/quote]

DP.  Fwiw, the opt-out movement only really applies to elementary school.  After that, students take them since they are required for graduation.  So you are currently in peak optional-SOL time.  (It isn't something that has really caught hold, here.  No one opts out of the SOLs in grade school around here.)[/quote]

PP here. I don't see the point of opting out of the SOLs. [/quote]

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