Dallas 2015 Scheduling Issues
 

Our school is telling us no freshman and sophomores can go to Thursday/Friday Dallas days because Texas EOC testing is early the next week. Anyone else having such a problem?

TIA

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I'm sure someone from Texas will have a better answer than this, but we have had similar conflicts with state testing for our students in Colorado. We have been able to arrange a make up day for our students in the past 3 years. I expect there is something similar in Texas.

-matto-

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I looked at the Dallas ISD testing calendar and couldn't find any mandated testing on those days. I'm not sure if mandatory state level testing is also mandated to occur on the same days, or if districts can adjust within themselves.

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This is Rockwall ISD.

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This is the first I've heard of a shook restricting travel due to testing that starts after the end of the event. What concerns does the school have with allowing the students to travel when they won't miss the test?

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Preparation I reckon, seems weird to me too!

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If I had to guess I'd say it's the assumption (baseless or not) that students perform better on tests when they are well rested, well fed/hydrated, and relaxed (i.e. - not in incredibly stressful evironments) in the days prior to the test. Pretty much the opposite of an FRC event :)

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Those very words are in the instructions to parents on the district web site! :)

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Sorry Keith, I misread your original post. I was just giving the info for DISD as a reference point, but I've never heard of not allowing students to travel PRIOR to a test week.

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I know that certain 624 students actually missed taking the TAKS test back in 2013 due to a regional and Katy ISD (or whoever's in charge) allowed them to take it on the makeup date.

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Keith, so sorry you are dealing with this. I looked into our testing schedule and the states and saw English 1 is scheduled for Tuesday March 29th, no high school exams scheduled for Wednesday, and English 2 scheduled for Thursday March 30th.

I just talked to our district and they do not have any problems with this, so maybe that can help you out?

Our plan for Dallas this year was to only take a small crew on Thursday anyway just to reduce the number of days students were missing. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

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For us the issue is that it falls on Easter weekend....we are still trying to figure out what to do also.

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We didn't compete at Lone Star because of Easter weekend last year.

OKC and Dallas are both Easter weekend, and Hub City is week 5 right before Lone Star.

We are planning to do Bayou and Lone Star this year. We were hoping to mix things up a bit but the schedule didn't allow for it.

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Looks like Dallas won't work for us this year... dang it we _really_ like Dallas Regional.

Looks like we're doing Alamo - Week 2... then Bayou - Week 3 (Spring Break)... then Hub City/Lubbock - Week 5.

--Michael Blake

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We are running into a similar problem because Dallas and OKC fall on Easter Weekend. We plan on going to Bayou/Lubbock and Houston. Really sad to be leaving the Dallas Regional this year!