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Met some parents/families who are already in a SEES and are testing their children every year for other SEES. I asked why they would want to do that, and they basically just said it’s to keep up with their kids’ standards and to see where they are at compared to their contemporaries.
Often times, they would reject the offers when the results are out.
Anyone have heard stories about that?
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Don’t get me wrong. I am fine with them taking the tests. It’s up to them.
The testing system is supposed for someones who are seriously considering transferring to “better schools”.
When those families are cat walking the tests, it makes me feel they’re exploiting the system just to get their kids tested for free.
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These tests are open to everyone including suburbanites and out of state people who do not pay taxes to the city of Chicago. CPS families are Chicago taxpayers, so the tests are really paid for from their taxes.
If you really want to go after people who exploit the system, you should go after those who play the tier game.-
Tiers were originally designed for better diversity among people in the city; however, like posted many threads in the forum, many people just bought a condo in Tier 1 as the application address to enhance their chance of getting into one of those Selective enrollment schools.
I do think every system has its pros and cons. We are all trying to live with the system or choosing to go to private schools, such as Lab.
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It is not enhancing chances, it is fraud. Many families got unenrolled and banned from the selective enrollment for life as a result of their exploitation of the tier system.
So, what were you saying about free test taking?-
Free testing is a good thing itself. The tier system makes the whole process very complicated.
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I think you are combining two separate issues from what was originally asked.
Parents who are happy in their elem school sometimes continue to test to get a pulse as to where their child stands and know how they may do in the future. I think this is more common as schools seem to be doing less standardized testing to give parents that information.
If they are ranked and receive an offer, they can decline it and the spot would be filled by the next qualified student on the list. We have seen that on this forum as people get offers in the summer or even into the school year. From K-6 I don’t think this has any impact and doesn’t ‘take away’ from any seat.
However at the AC level, this actually can have a negative effect. Historically AC have over-offered, knowing they get a certain number of legitimate declines, so there *usually* isn’t a waitlist maintained where the ‘next kid’ gets an offer. It just reduces the size of that specific class. I think in that case it is frustrating to hear of people testing when they literally had no intention of accepting an offer. But I guess it’s their right to do so.
It would be nice if CPS would let people test WITHOUT submitting an application, I feel like that was a thing several years ago. I don’t think there would be that much more demand or strain on the existing test system.
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