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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps in the upper years, it is not an issue, but I've had to wait till November for my child to even start reading books in the public school kindergarten program even though my child had been reading for 2 years.  I really don't want to wait until this time next year for him to read anything on level just because the school isn't willing to test my child at the appropriate level or anywhere close to it during the kindergarten year.  It has nothing to do with a certain score.  I could care less about the score and am more interested in what the class days are like.  As was stated earlier, if the test isn't going to measure anything useful, why have it?  That said, I would hope that the schools would have a better measuring system with the results transferred up from grade to grade.  The typical report card does not do this.  There is nothing wrong with wanting your children to do something productive during class time.  [b]Believe it or not, children outside of this area are often getting better lower grade elementary teaching than in Fairfax County because there isn't all this backlash against parents who spend time helping their children learn and they don't have to deal with as many children who come unprepared to start kindergarten[/b].[/quote]

What states/school districts are you referring to?

Our family has attended 6 different elementary schools in 4 different states.

Fairfax County is unsurpassed in preparing its children to be exceptional learners.  There are far fewer unprepared students in this area, particularly when you compare it to similar sized cities/demographics.  If there is any backlash it is against parents who want to one-up each other by using their kids' test scores as a measure of who is the better parent.[/quote]

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