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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

To be fair, this is probably the case in a non-pandemic year too. Kids at the less competitive centers with lower income populations are much less likely to be doing outside tutoring no matter what.

Yes but in previous years they didn’t have a large chunk of instructional time deleted from the school year, miss 1/3rd of last year, and have nearly a year of virtual garbage.

Understood, but until someone posts the previous years' pass rates compared to this year's, broken down by school, it's speculation to say that there are fewer kids passing than in previous years.

Does anyone know, will my child be able to take algebra in 8th due to the changes in the VA curriculum?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

To be fair, this is probably the case in a non-pandemic year too. Kids at the less competitive centers with lower income populations are much less likely to be doing outside tutoring no matter what.

Yes but in previous years they didn’t have a large chunk of instructional time deleted from the school year, miss 1/3rd of last year, and have nearly a year of virtual garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

To be fair, this is probably the case in a non-pandemic year too. Kids at the less competitive centers with lower income populations are much less likely to be doing outside tutoring no matter what.

The pandemic & full virtual for a year probably did not help with preparing students for the IATT. It probably hurt that.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

To be fair, this is probably the case in a non-pandemic year too. Kids at the less competitive centers with lower income populations are much less likely to be doing outside tutoring no matter what.

Does the test cover material they have already seen?

4s don’t count for anything - that’s all subjective. Some teachers give em and some don’t.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

Agree and my dc scored 65th percent. No outside tutoring, All 4s, always gets a pass advance in math SOLs, crappy center that didn’t teach anything last spring and bad virtual teaching.

Yes, and the poorer/less competitive centers with mostly families expecting the school to do their job of math instruction will have much fewer kids passing. Our center taught nothing last spring and did a terrible job with virtual instruction.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. So some centers really did a bad job with teaching math virtually since last spring.

Or some centers have more kids whose parents decided to supplement. Or a combination of both.

I can fully see the Centers that feed into the TJ Feeder Middle Schools having a good number of kids receiving supplementation and having a large percentage of kids passing with high scores. We are supplementing with AoPS this year because we were not happy with the level of math that was being taught virtually. I can see families that are very interested in TJ and families at the more competitive Centers had been supplementing already and those kids would crush the IAAT.

I texted this to my friend who has mentioned off hand that she reads this board from time to time so now she’ll know this is me. Ha! Hello. I know am a dork and I should not use this site but what can I say.

For anxious minds... I do Usps informed digest and I have a letter coming from fcps addressed to the parents of mu 6th grader coming in the mail today. I think it's IATT scores.

And this is why making everything a level 4 doesn’t necessarily do anything. Still all depends on the school, teachers, and kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my kid with all 4s who said the test was easy for 69%.

I seriously don’t care whether my kid takes Algebra in 7th or 8th. 8th will be ok!!

agree completely!

Wow. So some centers really did a bad job with teaching math virtually since last spring.

all of my DS's friends at his AAP center passed with 97% or above...insane!