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[quote=Anonymous]9:27 makes some good.

I would add:

Wilson: Needs to step up its game considerably. It's a big bad world out there, and at the moment I don't think anyone is highly confident that Wilson is doing a great job with either the advanced kids or the struggling kids. The best I ever hear from other parents about Wilson (or Walls, for that matter) is a hedging sort of "It's OK, I guess. It has its strengths." Anyone who says otherwise is probably lacking a point of comparison.

From my perspective, with a child who is taking 3 AP and 3 honors courses as a sophomore (so presumably among the kids who would be expected to do reasonably well on PARCC), between final exams and AP tests and probably the first stab at the SAT, my kid will have a lot of testing happening in the last months of school. Add PARCC to that mix AT THE SAME TIME and it's clearly at the bottom of the list. I wouldn't encourage my kid to opt out or tank the test, but honestly, PARCC testing this year at Wilson was really disorganized, and when you present something that's a complete mess and ask everyone to take it seriously, you shouldn't be surprised when no one does.

Also, if my kid ended up being pulled out during an AP review session to take a different standardized test, I would be livid. It's really not that hard for the school to figure out who will be taking APs and to schedule those children at different times for PARCC. And no, your child can not easily convince a teacher (even a dedicated and helpful one) to schedule a second AP review session after school. That kind of thing DOES NOT HAPPEN at Wilson, which is one of the problems there, but not even close to the most important.[/quote]

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