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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't think it bothers your child? I hate high stakes standardized testing and want it gone ... but I see this policy change as an opportunity to lessen its impact on the kids who really shouldn't have to carry that burden of "failing." It's an attempt to make the testing more accurately reflect what the kid has done all year - and that seems like a welcome change. I have signed the form and returned it.[/quote]

I think being pulled out of class to retake a test all him classmates know he's already taken is worse psychologically that just him knowing he didn't pass the SOL.  I would then tell him he came really close to passing and not to worry too much about it because we can work on the subject and get him up to speed.  He'll already know he didn't pass, no need to broadcast it to everyone else--that's a heavy burden.[/quote]

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I'm wondering how the child would even know he had failed in the first place - they send those scores home in the mail, right?  And I agree, I would never want my child to have to draw attention to the fact that s/he failed by being pulled out of class for a retake.  Absolutely not.[/quote]

Official scores are mailed in August to your house.  But "unofficial scores" are sent home (in our case in the Tuesday folder)  pretty soon after testing.  I've never seen a discrepancy between the 2, FWIW.                                                         [/quote]

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