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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously wish this country had never started this test score obsession, back with No Child Left Behind. It is morally appalling that people are making or losing money based on the test scores of the kids in the local school. “Have a good day today, honey, and try hard on that test because I stand to earn a 10% increase in my property values if you do.” Or, even more appallingly, “Oh no, some Hispanic neighbors moved in. Their kids won’t score high enough on the tests and I’m going to lose 10% of my property values. Time to move out.”[/quote]

I agree that NCLB and its successor Common Core gutted public school curricula, extracurriculars and demoralized teachers who were used to more autonomy. But this did not translate to property values.
  It’s a high stakes endeavor because it directly affects teacher pay and “performance” as well as school district budget as increasing avg standardized tests scores nets the district federal funds (for having signed up for common core).

I mean, look how many backwards changes MCPS made to try to obtain those damning federal Common core funds: they cooked up C2.0, they doubled the daily time of math and ELA in ES and cut specials/PE/science/social studies, they eliminated a grading scale with plusses/minuses, they introduced 3 tracking tests A YESR for k-5 (aka MAP), and they laid Pearson’s $$$$ for PARRC standardized test.

Now here we sit. Taking two years to get rid of C2.0 and who knows what’s replacing PARRC. And we’re over budget is every category - pensions, building, hiring, etc.[/quote]

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