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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see no issues with sharing scores, if that is what the kids want.  Kids share all sorts of achievements and it's about time kids can take some pride in their scores.  [b]Children who make it to elite travel soccer teams didn't get there by kicking around in their backyard.  Their parents "enriched them". [/b] If kids got high MAP-M scores because they got enrichment, I'm okay with them taking pride in that too.  (FWIW, it's much harder to do well on MAP-R than MAP-M)

Last week, DS told me a kid at his school ran a 2-minute mile, and DS was so impress.  Kids can make up all sorts of stuff, so you can always tell your kid that if Larlo said he got a 720 on his MAP-M, perhaps he is not so good with his numbers so take what kids say with a grain of salt.

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My daughter played travel softball.  She pitched to targets outside by herself in a net for hours. We never paid for coaches or forced her to do that. She went to practice just like everyone else did.

What the coach DIDN'T do was rate the kids on a score level in front of everyone.  Which is basically what MAP does.  Sure, some kids might not care, but many do.  [/quote]

If teachers are posting kids' scores on the board and ranking them for everyone else to see, that's definitely an issue and I would talk to the teacher ASAP.  If kids happen to know their scores, and some choose to share then that's very different.  [/quote]

Did you miss the whole point of the comments earlier. The MAP score shows up on the screen. Kids that are finished sutvand wait. They all see it. You might as well put it up on the board. My kid knows at least half the class’s score. They are bored when they are done. This is what they do. [/quote]

[b]If your kid is staring at other children's screens after the test, maybe you should teach them to not do that.  My kids share scores with a few other friends, but outside of that, they could care less who got what.  Neither are they phase by others who have higher scores, as it should be[/b].[/quote]
This!
My child took MAPs a couple of weeks ago, came home and said: "Guess what, we took MAPs, today, I got 230 and Larla (her best friend) got 232 and there's a kid in Ms Smith's class who was coming up to everyone who would listen telling them he got 280." That was the extent of her knowledge of other students' scores. Yeah, friends talk, but, apart from that, teach your child to look at this own screen if someone's higher scores are so traumatizing to him.[/quote]

How about MCPS doesn't flash the score on the screen and just registers it and sends a sealed note home to the parents.  Then no one will have to tell their 3rd graders to purposely not look at a screen or see a score by mistake and compare it to theirs.  Or have kids coming up asking what everyone's scores are.  Seems like a much easier solution. [/quote]

Anything the school sends to us takes foverer to get.  Look at the PARCC.  I rather the immediate scores than not getting it for month on end.[/quote]

Who gives a CRAP about PARCC.  It means nothing.  It literally does not mean a thing.  I don't even care what my kids get on it.  I don't even think I have ever looked at them.

So you will be okay, when your kid is taking the ACT for college that everyone's scores pop up when they are done, in front of everyone else that has finished or is still taking it.  You don't find that distracting for the students who are already under enough pressure?  You don't find that it is a confidentiality issue?   Or are you saying you are okay with those things as long as you get a quicker score from the mouth of your kid?   :roll: [/quote]

It is elementary school MAP scores.  Relax.  This is not like releasing your tax forms.[/quote]

So 8 year olds don't deserve privacy is that you are saying?[/quote]

Not when it comes to this.  MAPs are interesting scores only because I track my own kids' progression (not some other child's and I could care less what your kid got).  I mean, they are group by reading abilities and all the kids know which group is the highest or lowest.  There is also spelling group.  Then there is math.  There are also the kids who get the pullouts, push-ins.  There is no secrets going on in school.  Students should be taught to focus on improving themselves.[/quote]

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