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The whole thing is secret and subjective. Since it has a major impact on the child's educational trajectory through 12th grade I think this is unacceptable.

To the poster who said relax your child will be recommended if appropriate, I know of specific examples where this is not the case.

Maybe now that Starr is no longer superintendent some changes will be made.[/quote]

It's not secret -- you can read all about it here: http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/stateboard/legalopinions/2010/docs/PhilipP.Opin.No.14-39.pdf (Also you can ask your child's teacher about the process. My child's teacher volunteered information about the process at the parent-teacher conference in November.)

And everything not based exclusively on test scores is subjective. Do you think it would be better to base everything exclusively on test scores?[/quote]

I've read that opinion. It's not very useful because (1) assessment on the UCARE standard is based on some other rubric that is considered part of the proprietary part of the curriculum, and (2) the issue wasn't forced in that case because appellant's DC seems to be far enough from the cutoff that appellant has a tough time challenging the qualitative part of the school's methodology.

I don't think basing it on a test score is a panacea. Among other problems, we know that SES generally correlates with performance even among otherwise equally capable kids. So using an entrance exam would exacerbate the difference in placement between cohorts.  But what is going on now seems like a huge end run around FERPA, sine as a parent access to DCs educational records is not useful because the county hides so much of the curriculum.

I guess this means the real problem is the Pearson deal, but I don't know if we can get out of it. [/quote]

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