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calendar   Friday - March 21, 2014

hey you parents out there

Can anyone explain this “opting out” stuff to me? 

Riding what they see as a wave of anti-testing sentiment among parents, opponents of high-stakes assessments believe a strategy known as opt-out—having parents refuse to let their children take state-mandated tests—could force policymakers to take note of their cause.

Once considered a rarity, the opt-out push has prompted high-profile boycott efforts and meetings in large districts such as Chicago and led more parents nationwide to join forces with anti-testing advocates in arguing that the assessments are unnecessary, excessive, and, in some cases, even harmful to students.

Such efforts come at a time when states across the country are preparing to field-test assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards, and when controversy over the common core in many statehouses has reignited the debate over testing overload.

Link to a 2 hour long video all about Common Core . And state assessments. And why both suck.

But “opting out”? I don’t get it. Back in the Pleistocene when I was a kid in grade school, we got these tests every year or so. Sometimes several per year. You were never told how you did on them, and they didn’t always line up directly with what you were being taught in class at that time. I seem to recall it was math, reading and spelling. Maybe there was some geography and history in there? Maybe there were some of those “fold up this shape into a cube and tell us what it looks like” spatial relations things. I really don’t recall.

Sure, it was a test ... but one that was like a free ride. No grades! Just use your #2 pencil and have fun all morning ... all day ... I think once the tests lasted for the better part of a week? My point is, they were without consequence. None. Ever. No phone calls, no awards, no special classes ... um, wait, IIRC the school snuck an IQ test in on us a couple times, and after that my parents had to battle the school system which wanted to move me ahead 3 years. Just what my slower than average social skills development needed, right? So, no thanks.

So if it’s a meaningless test, with no impact on your kid at all, then what’s the point? What’s the problem? Why bother to “opt out” your kid?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/21/2014 at 01:50 PM   
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