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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

Buncha jerks.

I'd rather my kid be in geometry or language arts or science for a full class period than prepping for SOLs they have never not gotten a pass advance on.

What is "prepping for SOLs"?

Some schools have intervention blocks. Rather than restricting it to kids who need help, the whole school has a half hour a day of SOL prep. That half hour comes out of real classes.

What makes you think they would be learning something new? Often times at this time of year, the curriculum is finished or finishing up. I’d rather them do SOL prep then start the movies early.

I was a bit surprised to get an email that my kids math class had finished the curriculum 3 weeks ago and was moving to SOL prep. He is in advanced Math working on the 7th grade material. I am not excited by the idea that his class completed pre-algebra with most of the 4th quarter to go. That feels really, really fast to me.

The weekly email this week said the kids in the regular math class were finishing up their last unit and that there were kids who needed to make corrections and retake the last assessment.

The email this week said that they had finished reading their most recent novel and were not moving into SOL prep. The SOL is next week so that timing feels better to me.

This is the first year that I have known of where the kids have seemingly completed the curriculum before the SOL. I am interested to see what they do for the rest of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

Buncha jerks.

I'd rather my kid be in geometry or language arts or science for a full class period than prepping for SOLs they have never not gotten a pass advance on.

What is "prepping for SOLs"?

Some schools have intervention blocks. Rather than restricting it to kids who need help, the whole school has a half hour a day of SOL prep. That half hour comes out of real classes.

What makes you think they would be learning something new? Often times at this time of year, the curriculum is finished or finishing up. I’d rather them do SOL prep then start the movies early.

Gee .. imagine that - mandated learning time

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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

Buncha jerks.

I'd rather my kid be in geometry or language arts or science for a full class period than prepping for SOLs they have never not gotten a pass advance on.

What is "prepping for SOLs"?

Some schools have intervention blocks. Rather than restricting it to kids who need help, the whole school has a half hour a day of SOL prep. That half hour comes out of real classes.

I like the SOLs. DS put it on his college application. "Have already passed all state exams required for graduation." Listed each SOL subject. He was not a strong student. I think it mattered. It signaled to out of state colleges, especially, that he knew the material. Other states know FCPS has standards usually higher than their own.

This is so, so dumb.

Now, the only data point the school has is the iready, which is terrible (worse than the SOL considering it is common core standards and not our state's).

What will happen inevitably, is if you want your child in AAP, advanced math, etc. you are going to need data to back it up. Yes, the 2nd grade COGAT is helpful, but really if your kid isn't in AAP (like 80-85 percent of the kids in the county), you need the SOL to supplement.

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Anonymous wrote:I began opting my DC out of SOLs very early in ES. Maybe after the first year -is that 2nd grade?

Do what works for your student. It simply wasn’t worth the hype, pressure, stress and anxiety my DC experienced.

Doesn’t have to be a movement - just opt out and take a family trip, enjoy the time together in a meaningful way.

Absolutely no bearing upon your DC’s academic future.

SOLs are half a day at school, probably not even that long. What family trip are you taking?

LSD

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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

Buncha jerks.

I'd rather my kid be in geometry or language arts or science for a full class period than prepping for SOLs they have never not gotten a pass advance on.

What is "prepping for SOLs"?

Go pitch a tent in front of Gatehouse, it's what the cool kids are doing.

Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

And teachers will transfer out and few will want to transfer in.

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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

The parents are idiots. The school already knows what kids are passing and passing advanced. The parents opting out will accomplish nothing because the SOL study blocks are likely mandated due to low test scores. And the County will know that there was an increase in parents opting out and the normal scores for those kids and it won't influence a darn thing. The average test score is less important then the average number of kids who pass. The school will be fine if the study blocks lead to a higher pass rate from the kids that take the test.

A lower percentage of the kids taking the test will pass. Anyone who think extra time on math counts is going to help those kids pass doesn't have experience with high farms rate schools

Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

The parents are idiots. The school already knows what kids are passing and passing advanced. The parents opting out will accomplish nothing because the SOL study blocks are likely mandated due to low test scores. And the County will know that there was an increase in parents opting out and the normal scores for those kids and it won't influence a darn thing. The average test score is less important then the average number of kids who pass. The school will be fine if the study blocks lead to a higher pass rate from the kids that take the test.

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Anonymous wrote:If you mean the assessments and not the SOLs in general, not very. I retired last year from teaching ES grades and I rarely had students opting out of SOL testing.

we are starting a new movement- we started OPEN FCPS group back in 2020, and now we are calling for reforms in FCPS

Who is “we”?

It's the royal we. A party of one.

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Anonymous wrote:If you mean the assessments and not the SOLs in general, not very. I retired last year from teaching ES grades and I rarely had students opting out of SOL testing.

we are starting a new movement- we started OPEN FCPS group back in 2020, and now we are calling for reforms in FCPS

Who is “we”?

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Anonymous wrote:DS's school is a targeted improvement school. They now have targeted SOL study blocks every day. That costs them 10 minutes of class time per real class every day. Some of the parents with LIV kids are protesting by opting out of SOLs. Hopefully the school sees how many kids who normally pass advance are opting out and reverses course. If not, the scores will drop further and we'll get new school leadership.

Buncha jerks.

I'd rather my kid be in geometry or language arts or science for a full class period than prepping for SOLs they have never not gotten a pass advance on.