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[jinx]

Keeping, and organizing, everything is key. You have to show a full year's work to the evaluator (in about a 1/2 hour), who is currently licensed to teach the grades being evaluated. PA only requires standardized testing in grades 3,5, and 8 - so we skipped it this year.
The home schooled neighbor kid was held back a year based on an evaluators recommendation to the school district - it's not just a rubber stamp thing for sure.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by jinx

Keeping, and organizing, everything is key. You have to show a full year's work to the evaluator (in about a 1/2 hour), who is currently licensed to teach the grades being evaluated. PA only requires standardized testing in grades 3,5, and 8 - so we skipped it this year.
The home schooled neighbor kid was held back a year based on an evaluators recommendation to the school district - it's not just a rubber stamp thing for sure.

From what you say it seems to me that the power to pass or fail a single family is left up to one person. How do you know that person is qualified to make that kind of judgement? Hell, people we trust with our kids in public school often don't seem qualified to evaluate, teach, or test.