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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC CAS[i] is[/i] a cakewalk.  Sickening that so many schools and students still struggle with just the basics.  [/quote]

And to the poster who wrote that everything is worse and watered down from yesteryear: I'd challenge you actually sit in a, say, DCPS (or charter) fifth grade classroom and take the DC-CAS and be evaluated on it. Then maybe you'll rethink that it's a cakewalk. The problem with "proficiency" is rather that, in DC, those tests have been poorly aligned with the learning objectives in class. [b]So kids end up being tested on, say, long division, when they actually spent that time learning the basics of probability[/b] (certainly not something I had in 4th or 5th grade). Another concern, voiced in some circles, is that we've actually pushed ahead too fast, not leaving enough time for foundations to be acquired and consolidated. Pushing Algebra on everybody too early is bad they'd say. Not sure that's true but certainly illustrative of how flawed the "watered down", "failed", "not proficient", "barely the minimum" rhetoric is.

Anyway, this is besides the point of this thread but makes me wonder if there are some following Basis threads (maybe from private schools?) who's only aim is to discredit what the rest of is is getting for a lot less. Fortunately or hopefully, there are enough well educate parents in DCPS and DC charters at this point who can see through the brainwash.[/quote]

What the...  That makes little sense.  You can't delve into probability without first having mastery of division.  Putting the cart before the horse is no doubt going to lead to problems.  If that's what DCPS is doing, then no wonder they are having so many problems.  All in all it sounds like one hand not knowing what the other is doing, whether DCPS and the DC CAS folks not knowing which end is up, or even internally within DCPS where one class doesn't know what the next is doing, and isn't focusing on the appropriate prerequisites and things needed to be mastered at each level.[/quote]

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