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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate all of the focus on whether my child had a bad day or the specific score or the specific test.   But, as their parent, [b]I’m getting the advice of professionals [/b]over anonymous posting on DCUM—which don’t get me wrong can be helpful as a starting point, particularly in terms of questions to ask.

Rather, I want the focus to be on APS’ actions here.  There is a huge emphasis on the SOLs over other tests, as everyone knows.  Kids are prepped for them in a different way; the school emphasizes them in a different way.   And yet when kids can’t achieve at a basic level on them—no one notifies the families?   That is insane to me.  Does this really happen across the board?   I was assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that more competent schools within APS would notify the families.  Is that a mistake?[/quote]

Which professionals?

Presumably they have better measures of a student’s abilities than the SOL. Certainly they do for math and language arts. From the student’s perspective, SOLs are no more meaningful than any other assessment. 
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