Advanced Learning Update
From a parent: Finally
got an email from AL:
"Students who did not receive a testing appointment notice for Saturday October 17 will be rescheduled for another date and time as soon as possible. All referred students will be tested. Our new interim system successfully scheduled almost 400 SPS and private school students for our first Saturday testing event. Circumstances beyond our control prevented some families from being notified in a timely manner. We apologize for the inconvenience."
Comments
AL
North by NW
Also, what is equitable about testing on Saturdays?! I see that advanced learning is proposing a revised appeals process — looking at it through an "equity lens." Ironic when the first step of getting a student tested and into an advanced learning program is harder if you work on Saturdays, don't have transportation, etc. Are they trying to drive us away??!!
Frustrated
What a mess. :(
AL
Ticked off
Current parent
And then there was the whole saga of not receiving accurate test results, and then receiving NO test results.
GMG
That has always been the excuse for not providing an appropriate curriculum. Also - the testing is free for children enrolled in public schools. Revenue isn't as high as you are thinking.
Yeah - capacity does seem to drive everything and I can see how it would be hard to continue implementing testing at specific schools during the school day (or at least they were still doing that at some schools), but as everyone has said, it's definitely a barrier to test on a Saturday.
I hope the next few weekends are better than what we experienced.
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