[Mila]

"The Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) is a standards-based assessment..."

I was wondering if each individual school, that has students participating in this test, is evaluated based on the cumulative scores of the entire student body. Do the schools with better scores get more funding perhaps? Are promotions based on the scores? Are the scores of each school published in the paper? The principal sounds just a little too frenzied in his/her response to this matter for it to be just about one question not being answered by one student.

They do something of this type of testing here, or at least they did prior to Katrina. The results are printed in the paper and compared to other schools and the results of previous years. I would imagine that it is a pretty big thing among the schools.

[Pacothecat]

I totally agree with that. The public school system is a corrupt mess, but I think kids and parents with attitudes are defiantly a huge part of the problem too.

If I had a magic wand the entire school system would be privatized. School vouchers and the competition of capitalism who give this country the most educated population in history!.

But in the interest of full disclosure I have my kids in a Christin school partly because of this crap, but if they refused to answer a stupid question instead of coming up with a creative solutions just to be little punks and disrespect their teachers the schools overreaction would not be their biggest problem!!!

[luckystarmom]

Yes to all of your questions.

[MarMema]

I was wondering if each individual school, that has students participating in this test, is evaluated based on the cumulative scores of the entire student body. Do the schools with better scores get more funding perhaps? Are promotions based on the scores? Are the scores of each school published in the paper?

Bingo. You nailed it.