Comments on: ELA scores are out – but what? http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2006/09/21/ela-scores-are-out-but-what/ Keeping an eye on education Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve C. http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2006/09/21/ela-scores-are-out-but-what/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Steve C. Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:31:36 +0000 http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2006/09/21/ela-scores-are-out-but-what/#comment-102 Liz, I wonder if even the TESTERS know. SO I just try to be there for my kids and say , do your best. some of the worlds greatest personages , were NOT rocket scientists, yet were reveered by the same. Liz,

I wonder if even the TESTERS know. SO I just try to be there for my kids and say , do your best. some of the worlds greatest personages , were NOT rocket scientists, yet were reveered by the same.

]]> By: Liz Healy http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2006/09/21/ela-scores-are-out-but-what/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Liz Healy Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:22:55 +0000 http://hallmonitor.lohudblogs.com/2006/09/21/ela-scores-are-out-but-what/#comment-99 I wish I had the answer, having two middle schoolers myself. My father used to say about 12 & 13, "its a terrible age," I think he was right. There are so many changing variables at that age. Bodies change, hormones kick in, kids try to assert their independence, the school atmosphere changes you have many teachers and many subjects. In the elementary schools, at least in ours, there is a huge emphasis on reading and ELA in the younger grades, but as you get older the content ares begin to become more important, because now they have their own special test as well. I gues the biggest question for me is, "Does all this testing give us good information, or does it make us worry about something that will work itself out?" I wish I knew. I wish I had the answer, having two middle schoolers myself. My father used to say about 12 & 13, “its a terrible age,” I think he was right. There are so many changing variables at that age. Bodies change, hormones kick in, kids try to assert their independence, the school atmosphere changes you have many teachers and many subjects. In the elementary schools, at least in ours, there is a huge emphasis on reading and ELA in the younger grades, but as you get older the content ares begin to become more important, because now they have their own special test as well.

I gues the biggest question for me is, “Does all this testing give us good information, or does it make us worry about something that will work itself out?” I wish I knew.

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