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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I experienced this at a TT girls school - starting in third grade my daughter knew whose parents were the big donors to the school and that those kids didn’t get into trouble if they misbehaved. In middle school, girls were getting extra time on standardized test and accommodations because of who their parents were. None of them were actually neurodivergent but were given twice the time for their ERBs with a doctor’s notes while kids who weren’t rich or powerful couldn’t get it WITH a doctor’s note. We got sick of it and left. Frankly, I didn’t trust them with my kid’s college exmissions. Talk to parents at these schools and ask what their kid reports. The thing I learned is that no one knows the unwritten rules of these places better than the kids who are in them, and the middle and upper parents know things the lower school parents don’t. [/quote]

Was this a long time ago?  My kids have been at a TT girls school for over a decade and have never taken ERBs.[/quote]

My DD is at Brearley in the upper school.  I have a vague recollection of her taking standardized tests in middle school, but I think it was so that the school could calibrate its curriculum against national standards.  It was not for measuring the students at all, they didn't tell the parents or the kids the "scores" and I didn't give it another thought.  I couldn't have cared less how she performed as an 11-year old on the ERB or whatever standardized test it was.  I trusted the school's curriculum (and still do -- she has learned so much in that school and is leaps and bounds more educated than her same-aged relatives who go to public suburban schools in other parts of the country).  And why would I care if students received extra time on a middle school standardized test that was meaningless and for which the students were not even told a score?  (Frankly, I'm not even sure why their parents would want them to have extra time or how they even knew to ask for it when it barely registers in my mind that my kid took the tests; I think DD may have casually mentioned it once or twice during middle school but it was never a focus or big deal at all.)[/quote]

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