And, as usual, I am having a really hard time digesting them. In math, my kids grew over a year from September to May. I know that some of their growth has to do with the fact that I taught from January to now based on what they would be tested on. I want to celebrate their success, but I don't feed good about it: I feel like their scores are invalid because I taught to the test AND I want them to grow more AND I hate myself for caring about a test. Simultaneously.
Reading is even harder. My kids are reading like crazy, but they didn't do well on the reading test. They really, really didn't. I feel frustrated that all of my hard work in reading isn't showing on this test.
At the end of the day, I know the scores don't matter as much as other measures of my students growth, but the message (that I have failed my kids) is hard to ignore.
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