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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid scored in the 99th percentile across the city and was the only one to get fives in his school. I still think it's a terrible test. Most of his smart, accomplished classmates didn't even get "on grade level" (4s) which they clearly are. It's a flawed test.[/quote]

Not a fan of PARCC (way too long, results not immediate and so not pedagogically useful), but it doesn't test how smart or accomplished a kid is.  It attempts to test whether they have learned a set of agreed upon concept and skills for that grade level (common core). If you school isn't teaching this common core or if students at your school aren't learning it, that's a problem for the school and for the kids.  Perhaps the PARCC doesn't test it well and the kids are learning it at your school?  But then why do kids in JKLM do so well when their schools that do absolutely NO test prep?

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Common Core is just general ELA skills kids should know, no different from what a lot of places had in place. Not rocket science: main idea, reading for detail, inference, etc!!! DCPS at the the time adopted PARCC had nothing in place other states did such as Massachusetts. So if you've come from highly-regarded private, the PARCC should be a piece of cake! Honestly kids scoring low need some serious remediation, if it is not due to some other issues (text anxiety, special needs, lack of computer skills, etc), because it is not that difficult. It's just like taking the NAEP, geneal ELA skills most kids should know [/quote]

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