What is your town’s goal in having a classroom with kids from a wide range of abilities this late in their age?

I did not know exemption was an option for my 8th grader. I am going to look into that. Thank you!

Buy at one point do we then stop looking at the personal life

It is only mandatory for grade 10. I am also a college professor and while I do appreciate the snapshot of “learning” MCAS can give our district, the time spent prepping for the test pretty much renders that data useless. Combine with how far behind my kids are this year due to our district’s experiment cutting SPED and forcing teaching teams to manage classrooms with remedial, honors level and standard level students combined and we really should not be wasting a minute on these. My 8th grader is excused this year (you can find a standard exemption letter online).

The students overall performance and the school district’s performance in general helps determine state funding allocations.

Usually, the kids with learning disabilities or test anxiety are given more time (up to 7 hours).

Which politicians exactly? Can you point to someone in the MA legislature who has advocated for stricter gun laws and has advocated for more police access to deadly weapons?

MCAS is that you?

But you don’t get it, anyone who isn’t a part of the echo chamber is toxic and threatening!

Love Ralphs

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It's not easy for everyone. I'm lucky I have kids that are good test takers, but my kids have friends with severe text anxiety or learning disabilities, and it's difficult for them. The fact that it assesses the school makes it even worse for me because we are wasting our kids' time for the sake of evaluating admin and teachers?

Well personally I am surprised that is the reason he was let go, but honestly if you think about it as police chief he is meant to uphold the law. If he has trouble upholding the values of his marriage then perhaps he will be looking for gray areas in other places as well. However, this negates my argument that polyamorous people wouldn’t necessarily be discriminated against bc loads of men are having affairs and not getting fired or evicted for it.

You mean like the surplus humvees they drove around once or twice and are now rotting in a back lot because they can't afford to keep them running?

Please comment,please comment but on the moral delema not on general police on the job behavior

oh so sorry for commenting in a public forum

Not the point of the post,read my above comment abnd why this post is flaired opinion not news

Why is such small towns news is even a discussion and week old news is being posted now? Good question,the answer to the second question is that just this morning the reason why has been discovered and this also answers the first question as well.

This was over a off duty extra marital affair on the Chief's personal time.

The question is that should amoral or imoral behavior that happens on personal time and does not effect a job be reason for dismissal.

Bill Clinton committed adultry and kept his job,if you recall the impeachment trial was for lying about the affair to congresss (perjury) not for the Lewinski incident in and of itself.

Was Chief Wood treated fairly by Mayor Macksey???

we really need to get rid of lebor so these cops can be removed without still being paid. the extra special treatment they get is ridiculous

It's really easy to pass the MCAS. It's also to review the school's performance, not an individual student's.

Found the daughter

As far as I know mcas isn’t used to assess the students it’s used to assess the schools so they want it to be standardized, not saying it’s good or bad

Bonus unicorn!

Falmouth is way too far. Better move closer to Boston and commute to Fall River than commute from Falmouth. Specially during the summer.

I work in Fall River Industrial Park and I commute from Weymouth. My commute is around 40-45 minutes. Morning commute so I’m going against rush hour, it’s sooo nice. All my co workers that live around like Assonet and stuff, yeah it’s nice and like 10 minutes away, but they don’t have anything to do or anywhere to hangout.

On the other hand, I’m extremely close to Boston. When I got the job, I told my wife I wanted to be looking for something along 24, first week I told her, never mind, I love my commute. 2 months into the job, still feel the same. Better close to Boston than close to work.