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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many posts I want to respond to here....

1) When 'they' are talking about AP review sessions they mean class. Wilson students missed class to take the PARCC. My daughter had to miss about a weeks worth of chemistry classes to take the test. She told me she answered A on every single question so she could get back to her honors chemistry class.

2) If you seriously think that the wilson students skipping the PARCC to prepare for their 4+ AP (college level) tests won't be prepared for college you're kidding yourself

3) Have you taken an AP exam, my daughter's AP US History teacher explained to us on back to school night that if she were to teach all the material on the test she would need an extra 4 weeks of school.

4) My daughter, her teachers and I all know exactly how inconsequential the tests are. It's a joke for her and her friends and they compared the ridiculous answers they wrote for the essay portions of the english exam. (My personal favorite was one where God descends from the heavens to tell DCPS to stop making them take the test.

5) Wilson kids have so much pride for their school and it won't take a handful of "DC Urban Moms" questioning it to force them to take a test to prove that their school is great. Something they already know [/quote]

How weird!!! You can't leave the PARCC room in the middle of the test, so you are sitting in the room doing nothing if you just write anything on the test. It's not like they let you leave, so I'm beginning to doubt these stories, perhaps kids are embarrassed that this is their real score. It was not a test, it was an assessment, nothing  your daughter had to study for. So, if your child was prepared for AP and had been attending classes all year she should have aced that English and Math PARCC and still been able to sit there and chill. Wilson and the Post is perpetuating this story about Wilson to cover up the fact that their scores were abysmal. Every other high school also had PARCC and AP at the same time, but funny how only Wilson is complaining about it and Banneker kids did just fine. [/quote]

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