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[quote=Anonymous][/quote]Read harder. My response was to a post about elementary students not needing to know if they passed or failed the sol. I agreed with that post and decided to respond about the time a teacher informed my third grader that he failed the first sol he ever took. [b]You know very well I'm sure, that there wouldn't have been any remediation unless it was in preparation for an sol retake[/b]. And in elementary school they do need parents permission to have children retake an sol. What you did is read one part of my post and assume what my "complaint" was about. My original post wasn't a complaint as much as it was a response to the pp about elementary students not needing to know their sol scores. I'm pretty sure you're just arguing with me because you need to feel like you are right and I am wrong, so whatever. That's why I think you're the type of poster that likes to make trouble.[/quote]

Another completely new poster here to say that, unfortunately, [i]you are incorrect[/i].  The first respondent has been completely polite to you but you are being quite obtuse and rude.  As has been pointed out by [i]several[/i] people, remediation occurs throughout the year and, indeed, at multiple times during a child's school day.  That is what good teaching is all about.  Remediation is [i]completely[/i] different than re-taking the SOL.

And, by the way, as a parent, I definitely do disagree with you about children knowing their SOL scores; they [i]should[/i] know their SOL scores.  Every time a child takes an assessment, whether it is formative or summative, the child should get feed back on how he or she performed.  Otherwise the assessment has value only to the assessor and no value at all to the child being assessed.

Think about it this way.  If your child plays soccer and kicks the ball towards the goal, do you want him or her to see if the ball goes in the net or not?  Certainly you want the child to see what happens:  if the ball misses the net then the child learns from that and if the ball goes into the net then the child learns from that as well.  But blindly kicking the ball and not knowing the outcome does the child very little good.

FWIW, since [i]several[/i] of us have read your posts and come to quite remarkably similar interpretations, you might want to think about how you can improve your writing style to be more clear about what you are trying to say.  Especially since you think that none of us are understanding you.  For instance, I think it would greatly help you if you phrased it this way:  remediation for the purpose of re-taking the SOL. [/quote]

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