Good article about opting out of standardized testing

nosoup4u

I know @honkeytonk and @andrewsgirl were on a thread a few months back about standardized testing in the primary grades, here's a good overview of why parents are opting out: https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/01/the-defiant-parents-testings-discontents.html
Money quote: "One teacher remarked that, if a tester needs three days to tell if a child can read “you are either incompetent or cruel. I feel angry and compromised for going along with this.” "

And this is a great (albeit long) article about how the Common Core State Standards came to be, and why they are shady as fuck.
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/28_02/28_02_karp.shtml

honkytonk_kid

Thank you! Can't wait to read them.

honkytonk_kid

On a related note, this made me want to cry yesterday. Or barf. Or both

rosesandpetals

honkytonk_kid said:

On a related note, this made me want to cry yesterday. Or barf. Or both

That is awful. I won't say anything else because this topic gets me too riled up. But that picture you posted is worth a thousand words of what is wrong right now.

nosoup4u

Def barf and yell for me, @honkytonk_kid!!

@cjcouple, opting out shouldn't affect state funding, tho it might if you are in a "failing" district (tho, thanks to NCLB, all districts in the US are "failing" this year). The biggest idea behind opting out is that if enough parents at a school refuse to let their kids be a part of the system, admin and companies won't have data i. e. will not have power over the schools themselves.