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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let it go - all these tests mean so little in real life!!!![/quote]

My thought as well. Some people just need sonething to be outraged about. And I'll never understand this new culture of "Let's get someone fired".

In the grand scheme of things, no one wins or loses a thing because of the SOL. It's not attached to money, promotion, or hell even a grade. Sheeze![/quote]

Do you work for FCPS or another county?

Do you not have a professional code of ethics?

Teachers who cheat on SOLs are teaching students it's ok to cheat.

If the tests don't matter, why would teachers be cheating on them?  They do matter.

For some parents, failing SOL scores mean the difference between getting their child help or letting their child slip through the cracks. If teachers inflate the scores, there is deception and falsifying of a student's academic Achievement or capability. It's happening all over Fairfax County. It's a numbers game and principals and regions need to look good and show they've reached their annual goals. These numbers are posted on the fcps website. Each school posts stats. It's easy to see which school inflates their numbers.

Don't you want to trust what teachers and schools report your child is achieving?  One could argue all tests mean little in real life. If they ok with reporting inflated sol scores you should be skeptical of all grades reported by fcps.

OP was not out to get anyone fired. That was not the point of the original post.

Rethink your ethics. [/quote]
It can also screw the next year's teacher. Teachers set goals based on last year's data that count towards the lion's share of their evaluation. If that data is falsified, teachers won't have accurate baseline data to work with.[/quote]

Every school I've worked at (admittedly only 3) has discouraged using sol data for goal setting, actually. It doesn't make sense to use 4th grade data as a baseline for 5th grade standards, or biology as a baseline for chemistry.  Plus, often data isn't back in time for end of the year reflections and evaluations.[/quote]

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