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teachers give tests too - and they know your kid.   There's no magic to standardized tests devised for NCLB --- they are all about keeping testing companies in business and perpetuating the whole NCLB mess.   Is that what you want as a parent?[/quote]What I want as a parent is some uniformity, which comes from standardized outside tests. I want to think that if I move my 6th grader from Stokes to Hardy, he won't be behind. I want to know that if I get relocated to Boca Raton midyear, my 6th grader won't be lost in math or whatever, or repeating material.  You may have seen on this forum complaints that Basis kids who went to walls had to repeat a class due to geometry not being  covered in sequence. I don't want that type of mess.
When your child applies to college, that 4.6gpa counts for little if the SAT doesn't mirror those grades, and there are reasons that colleges look closely at standardized tests as well as those given by individual teachers[/quote]
This.  People who say "the teacher can give tests" don't seem to understand the word "standardized."  Not saying that the tests are currently good, but the answer is not eliminating all standardized tests.  The answer is having a reasonable number of better tests.[/quote]

I understand standardized completely and know there's a difference between how the SAT's are used and the NCLB tests are used.  SAT's are a national measure and are taken any a subset of students wanting to get into (most) institutes of higher learning.   As for moving to Boca Raton -- they use different standardized tests than DCPS, so they won't help much there.  You can find out about the Stokes/Hardy differences much better by visiting the school and talking to parents/teachers about kids like yours.  In short, the kind of "mess" you want to avoid can't be fixed by DCPS standardized tests used for NCLB. Those tests are the kind that are "taught to" so pull the highest possible scores out of the kids to make the schools district look as good as possible -- they are not meant to help your kid learn and have nothing to do with their grades, which some kids know very well.[/quote]

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