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[quote=Anonymous]I am too very surprised at murch parents, who are usually very vocal about things, but in this case we seem to just follow along with these tests and not protest more. Perhaps a lot of them hang on the 'scores' as if they actually mattered. But I personally feel they don't tell you much about future success in the real world. Do some research on value-added measures in connections with high stakes tests and you'd be surprised at what you find. Tests connected to high stakes are highly unreliable because they are just that, high stakes. For the person who did not have issues with the cas. The DC CAS is 2 weeks long. Parents, let me repeat, two weeks long. Most specifically, it's about 6 days of 1.5 to 2 hours long each day for 2 weeks. Not only that but my kindergartener told me that she did not get to go out most of those days, so it obviously affects everyone whether they are in tests or not. That is way too long for young children. Whether or not the kids get stressed about it, it's a total waste of valuable time and school money. And for the person who said that the interim assessments don't count?, then why even do them then? whether it stresses our kids out or not should not be the barometer that justifies a test. It all ultimately takes valuable time away from real learning they could be doing. We already have about 14 four day weeks our of 30 something. The school system is paid for by us, taxpayers. We should be able to put a stop to this growing madness if we put our voices together. A parent reminded me the other day that we are an autonomous school. What do we know about this special school status? Could we use our autonomous status to choose to have our children assessed in alternate ways that do not require our kids to sit filling in bubbles for 2 weeks every year? I am interested in my daughter's lessons being engaging and meaningful, not being solely directed by what will be tested on some circle the answer test. [/quote]

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