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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. We received a letter from the middle school. It may depend which middle school you go to. [/quote]

And [i]that[/i] is a huge equity problem.[/quote]

Whether you find out your kid's math placement in April vs May vs June is a huge equity problem?

(I mean, yeah, it's not great if a middle school puts it off until the last week of school in case there truly was an error in placement that you want to argue against.  But honestly you could make the case that that's better for equity because you're not giving the highly involved parents months to argue their kid should be up a level, and any kid who is truly placed too low should be spotted in the first month of school and bumped up anyway.) [/quote]

Not so much the [i]when[/i] (though differential timing still might present a bit of a problem, as you note), but the lack of clear equivalent treatment of student identification across schools such that equivalent placement would be dependent on equivalent ability assessment and not on where a student lived.[/quote]

Not sure if you are the PP but PP was replying to a post which said that they had already gotten the letter but the timing might vary based on your MS, and claiming that was a huge equity issue.[/quote]

That depended on what the "it" was in the "it may depend on which middle school" comment, which was not made as a reply to a specific post, where there were multiple issues raised prior, including in the OP's original post.  Timing depends?  Not as big a problem.  Placement depends?  Bigger problem.[/quote]

Not one of the PPs but understand the challenge being brought up. If all the data is not available yet, then either no MS should be making placement decision or all MS should be making placement decision about some students. For example, maktbe the students who are still waiting on decision are those whose available showed them on the cusp and so schools want to see MCAP scores and grades before deciding.  That would make sense. But the process should be the same  across all schools.
In fact those on the cusp could be notified and told when the decision will be made. [/quote]

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