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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No ones AP exam was going to be ruined by 3 hrs on PARCC. [/b]

They have a year to prepare. [b]Ask teachers to schedule an additional review session[/b].

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Not the kids' job. That is an admin SNAFU.[/quote]

High school kids are old enough to self-advocate. The[b] AP and PARCC schedules come out MONTHS in advance. 
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If they can't manage that they'll be lost in college.

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Ok, let's look at these 3 points
1. PARCC may be only a 3 hr exam per day, but my DC was scheduled for 3 straight days of testing the week before APs. While PARCC testing was ongoing, so were all the regular classes. DC would have been playing catch up in several class assignments, trying to turn in homework after missing the class etc right smack before APs. That was un-neccessary stress, and there's no policy in place to have teachers stop their lesson plans while PARCC is ongoing.
2. There's no free periods in the school day for these reviews, lunch time is a blip. Asking for another review time would either mean moving the reviews further away from the AP test, or persuading teachers to stay after school for the review :/ o a day when the kids had already sat through hours of testing
3. I agree that administration was aware of the testing schedule for PARCC months in advance. MY DC was notified of being in the testing cohort[b] less than 2 weeks before the test[/b] I asked admin @ Wilson why DC was in the testing cohort for a middle school math class, the response was "ask central DCPS, they sent us the lists". I emailed central DCPS and the response was "Wilson makes the lists of students, not us"
So, once I figured no-one would take responsibility for DC 's presence on the testing roster, I told DC not to alter the normal schedule of classes: go to reviews, go take your APs
I think it makes more sense for PARCC to be moved. AP exams are nation-wide, always the same weeks in May. DC can decide when to schedule PARCC, and can avoid conflicts like this[/quote]

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