Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If enough families would opt out of testing perhaps th ey would stop using as a primary tool for judgment of teachers and school quality.

That is a terrible way to address the issue.

dp: You use the tools you have. If the ed reform admins and politicians don't listen to the parents (which thus far they have not), then opt out is a good way to go.

Anonymous wrote:If enough families would opt out of testing perhaps th ey would stop using as a primary tool for judgment of teachers and school quality.

That is a terrible way to address the issue.

If enough families would opt out of testing perhaps th ey would stop using as a primary tool for judgment of teachers and school quality.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During the hearing last week, people brought up using the Regent's exam from NY. Is that a well-regarded test?

The Regents exam is for high school students only.

This chart shows which states used what test for grades 3-8 and high school in 2016-17.

Here's the link https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/states-using-parcc-or-smarter-balanced.html

Anonymous wrote:During the hearing last week, people brought up using the Regent's exam from NY. Is that a well-regarded test?

The Regents exam is for high school students only.

This chart shows which states used what test for grades 3-8 and high school in 2016-17.

Anonymous wrote:During the hearing last week, people brought up using the Regent's exam from NY. Is that a well-regarded test?

PARCC per se is not bad, it's the way it is implemented and obsessive focus on it for the students and teachers. There are faults with all assessments, if . your child is high-achieving they should be able to score well on the PARCC ELA, not sure about the math exam. AP students at Wilson, have no excuse for not being able to score highly on the PARCC.

During the hearing last week, people brought up using the Regent's exam from NY. Is that a well-regarded test?

The only think that benefitted from PARCC is Pearson.

Anonymous wrote:PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.

+1000. Plan to opt out this year no matter what hassles are involved.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.

I don't love PARCC, but this is a ridiculous complaint. Your school knew full well they'd need to administer PARCC, and have the equipment and internet access to do it.

But they also had the option of testing on paper for a year or two if it presented a true hardship.

A school purchases a whole fleet of computers just to administer PARCC. Okay. Now we understand true objective of this failed exercise.

ALL assessments are all online not just PRACC, iReady, RI, NAEP, Science Assessment, ANet, no DCPS schools used paper tests anymore.

Yes, thank you for pointing out that a slew of contractors are also profiting from this failed exercise.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.

I don't love PARCC, but this is a ridiculous complaint. Your school knew full well they'd need to administer PARCC, and have the equipment and internet access to do it.

But they also had the option of testing on paper for a year or two if it presented a true hardship.

A school purchases a whole fleet of computers just to administer PARCC. Okay. Now we understand true objective of this failed exercise.

ALL assessments are all online not just PRACC, iReady, RI, NAEP, Science Assessment, ANet, no DCPS schools used paper tests anymore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.

I don't love PARCC, but this is a ridiculous complaint. Your school knew full well they'd need to administer PARCC, and have the equipment and internet access to do it.

But they also had the option of testing on paper for a year or two if it presented a true hardship.

A school purchases a whole fleet of computers just to administer PARCC. Okay. Now we understand true objective of this failed exercise.

Paper and pencil or online -it is developmentally inappropriate and not a good measure.

Anonymous wrote:PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.

I don't love PARCC, but this is a ridiculous complaint. Your school knew full well they'd need to administer PARCC, and have the equipment and internet access to do it.

But they also had the option of testing on paper for a year or two if it presented a true hardship.

PARCC should be dumped. It is developmentally inappropriate and a poor way to measure anything. We are in a charter school that has limited access to computers and up until a year ago, poor internet access, and the whole thing was and is ridiculous.