We have a teacher that moved down from high school and the emails were borderline unprofessional, but she also didn't send them BCC or through the school messaging app, so everyone can see everyone else's email. I emailed her once, and I don't even know if she ever got it- she never responded.
I also dislike the messaging around testing. It gives my DD testing anxiety and she tests really well and isn't the core audience for that messaging. I think it got better when our tutor for DS, who is also a 5th grade teacher was like yeah don't worry about it.
We have a teacher that moved down from high school and the emails were borderline unprofessional, but she also didn't send them BCC or through the school messaging app, so everyone can see everyone else's email. I emailed her once, and I don't even know if she ever got it- she never responded.
I also dislike the messaging around testing. It gives my DD testing anxiety and she tests really well and isn't the core audience for that messaging. I think it got better when our tutor for DS, who is also a 5th grade teacher was like yeah don't worry about it.
This. DD1 has been in tears at bedtime for weeks due to upcoming state testing. She is in advanced math and English classes so not the audience that needs to worry anyway.
I think the talk about state testing has lessened in my area in the last few years because so many kids were opting out. My 4th grader just finished and wasn’t really fazed by it. My current principal was also pretty “whatever” about it, which surprised me because our scores suck and we might be going into receivership.
DD has 3 weeks of school left. State testing just finished. Now she has MAP, district tests, and final exams for her high school level courses. In the last 5 weeks she’s had like 3 days without a test. All learning basically has stopped. It’s absurd. She’s kind of desensitized to tests now and really just puts in full effort for her favorite subjects. I don’t blame her. It’s just too much.
I was very whatever about state testing for many years. Now I just opt my youngest out and keep him home on testing days. What a waste of time. I also opt my HS kids out of the 11th grade science state test because it’s the day after the SAT, so dumb.
Post by thebreakfastclub on May 2, 2024 17:19:50 GMT -5
My son's 5th grade teacher said to the kids, nobody pays attention to your individual score, they're just rolled up for the total district and state.
I appreciate her keeping it very low key, but my son is not really ever bothered by the testing. He enjoys that she provides candy mid-test. It was 90 minutes on Mon-Tue for 3 weeks.
Testing here is five 90 minute sessions over two weeks. But they're doing practice tests this week too.
I do wish everyone would do more to message that k-8 these are testing the school not the kids.
=== V's writing nosedived in the second half of the year, and I just found out his ELA teacher is a rookie. I guess I should have read the teacher bios more closely! Last year was fine, and the first half of this year was fine, so I guess we'll just chalk it up to bad luck. He'll have a co-taught ELA class next year with veteran teachers so hopefully that will help.
Kid #1's school split it up so there was two days of testing per week (Mon and Tues) for 3 consecutive weeks. Which was a pain considering I had to reschedule an orthopedic doc f/u appointment but he didn't complain all that much. It helped that this was the first round of standardized testing since we got his 504 put in place, so he took his tests in a small group of maybe 3-4 students which he really liked!