<p>GCs don’t need to explain what the SAT scores mean. What makes them think that we can’t figure out PSAT scores? </p>
<p>Our school used to hold scores until after the break and hold a meeting to explain what the PSAT scores meant. With budget cuts, the school now passes the results out as soon as they come in. </p>
<p>Haven’t heard any complaints from the parents. Most can figure it out just fine.</p>
<p>Our school held them a week or so, because guidance was overwhelmed with testing and college apps. When my oldest son took them as a junior, the director of guidance (who is a good friend) was nice enough to call him down early and give him his, because he knew my son was a NM candidate. He did the same thing last year with another student (she was NM commended).</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t know that there was a code to get the scores! Our GCs did not tell us scores, and did not even tell us when they were in. Some people found out by asking GCs in the spring. Eventually, we got them in the mail.</p>
<p>At my daughter’s school, they will hand them out in a home room on Friday. She went to the GC and asked to get it sooner, but was told no. Why they think it’s better to hand them out in a classroom full of kids is beyond me.</p>
<p>Maybe I would have more empathy for this type of practice if I worked at a school. </p>
<p>I don’t, and my view of it is “your tax dollars at work”. </p>
<p>Our school administration also famously mails schedules so that they arrive on the Friday before the first week of school. I believe they feel it cuts short any discussions of things that they want to do unilaterally.</p>
<p>Ninth and tenth grade PSAT testing … HA! Good luck getting those at our district HS. I agree with DadX … too many public high schools behaving badly for their own convenience.</p>
<p>Tangential issue: Parents in our district complained about poor communication from HS administration. This year the number of communications has doubled … EXACTLY doubled. Each weekly email is sent twice … the original, and a corrected version. The original always contains a small error, which the second corrects. Latest: “The prior email incorrectly listed the due date as December 17. The correct date is December 10.” Your tax dollars at work indeed.</p>
<p>Well, came home today to find PSAT scores on the kitchen table 
D & her crew stopped in the guidance office at lunch and asked if they were available. They were already sorted by English class & they were able to take them. Yay! I’ll be sure to remind her again next December when she’s a junior ;)</p>
<p>After holding the PSAT scores for over a week, son’s HS gave out the scores today. Last year, they gave the scores the second week of January.</p>
<p>Our school usually holds them until the last day before winter break (which is this Friday). I find this very irritating. Apparently our upper school principal, who has only been at the school for a few years, is not aware of this practice. I saw him a couple of weeks ago and asked when they would be available, and he said he thought the college counselor would just email the kids to pick them up (not really an appointment) within a few days. This has not happened…</p>
<p>I am going to email the college counselor and confirm that they are giving them out. D wants them for some summer program applications she is working on.</p>