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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The numbers showed everything.  Doing away with the exams is just a massive coverup on how bad the schools are really teaching them the required curriculum.  Anyone who thinks otherwise, is a fool.  [/quote]

But you have parents that are defending it and [b]just happy their kids will get easy grades now[/b].  And they wonder why Americans continue to fall behind.   [/quote]

I haven't heard or read any parents saying, "I'm so happy that MCPS got rid of two-hour final exam periods for high-school classes, because now my child will get easy grades!" Have you? Where?[/quote]

As a parent, I am greatly disappointed in the Board of Education.  Here they have evidence of a clear problems in education.  Students should be able to pass these exams.   I have long suspected the issue was MORE than just math because my kids have been saying for YEARS topics were on the county exam that the teacher did not cover in class.  I have actually gone and looked at my child's high school exams and found errors on the tests that according to the department chair, had been there for over 10 years.  MCPS has been giving exams for years that were not thoroughly vetted but because the tests do not come home and it is a pain in the ass to go to the school to review the tests, it wasn't until my inspection that these errors were discovered.

The failure to review the exams with students, the failure to rewrite the tests to make them better measurements, as well as the failure to teach comprehensively the curriculum throughout the county is why you have high performing students failing midterm and end of the year exams.  Getting rid of these tests are not the problem.  They are bad data points that proves there are serious flaws in our county's public education system.  Taking away the exams is paramount to the BOE sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring the serous problems plaguing the system. [/quote]

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