Opting out of 2017 PARCC - Who has Experiencing with Opting Out? How did it work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?

Long division is different from supporting the Rhee agenda and her acolytes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?

Long division is different from supporting the Rhee agenda and her acolytes.

Michelle Rhee has been gone for a long time now. Before PARCC we had DC-CAS and before that something else. You can blame Michelle Rhee for connecting the results of hte test to teacher evaluations, but not for having kids spend 3-6 hours on annual standardized tests.

[Anonymous]

You're the obnoxious sounding one on this thread, honey. Calling OP names to score points. She sounds like she just wants to be left alone.

Seen the movie Loving? That's all the interracial couple wanted, to be left alone. They didn't even turn up at the Supreme Court.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're the obnoxious sounding one on this thread, honey. Calling OP names to score points. She sounds like she just wants to be left alone.

Seen the movie Loving? That's all the interracial couple wanted, to be left alone. They didn't even turn up at the Supreme Court.

ARE YOU SERIOUS??? get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Yep, serious. You've called OP a whole bunch of names. Just went through your posts making a list. Let's see...selfish, self absorbed, anti-civic, insufferable, rude, obnoxious. Fact is, all she seems to be asking for is the right to be left in peace, without her child having to take the PARCC to use her IB school, or being hauled to the DC Superior court on a charge of criminal child neglect because she opted out. Federal law supports the right she wants to exercise.

I come from a Mennonite family, where men have refused to bear arms for generations. My ancestors & father, who refused to fight in Vietnam, were called many names as a result. These names include most of those you've used for OP. The name calling didn't change minds in our family, and it's not gonna shut down the opt out movement in AMerica.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, serious. You've called OP a whole bunch of names. Just went through your posts making a list. Let's see...selfish, self absorbed, anti-civic, insufferable, rude, obnoxious. Fact is, all she seems to be asking for is the right to be left in peace, without her child having to take the PARCC to use her IB school, or being hauled to the DC Superior court on a charge of criminal child neglect because she opted out. Federal law supports the right she wants to exercise.

I come from a Mennonite family, where men have refused to bear arms for generations. My ancestors & father, who refused to fight in Vietnam, were called many names as a result. These names include most of those you've used for OP. The name calling didn't change minds in our family, and it's not gonna shut down the opt out movement in AMerica.

Given the persuasion skills showed by you and op, I am firmly convinced the opt out movement is going nowhere. Where you Bernie or busters by any chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, serious. You've called OP a whole bunch of names. Just went through your posts making a list. Let's see...selfish, self absorbed, anti-civic, insufferable, rude, obnoxious. Fact is, all she seems to be asking for is the right to be left in peace, without her child having to take the PARCC to use her IB school, or being hauled to the DC Superior court on a charge of criminal child neglect because she opted out. Federal law supports the right she wants to exercise.

I come from a Mennonite family, where men have refused to bear arms for generations. My ancestors & father, who refused to fight in Vietnam, were called many names as a result. These names include most of those you've used for OP. The name calling didn't change minds in our family, and it's not gonna shut down the opt out movement in AMerica.

lol. I am not the only one calling her obnoxious. and you are ridiculous comparing her snotty reasons for opting out of PARCC with conscientious objections and civil rights. OP is off the charts privileged. If she wants to opt out as a political statement she should take her lumps (just like ghandi and MLK, to which her brave struggle is TOTALLY comparable!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, serious. You've called OP a whole bunch of names. Just went through your posts making a list. Let's see...selfish, self absorbed, anti-civic, insufferable, rude, obnoxious. Fact is, all she seems to be asking for is the right to be left in peace, without her child having to take the PARCC to use her IB school, or being hauled to the DC Superior court on a charge of criminal child neglect because she opted out. Federal law supports the right she wants to exercise.

I come from a Mennonite family, where men have refused to bear arms for generations. My ancestors & father, who refused to fight in Vietnam, were called many names as a result. These names include most of those you've used for OP. The name calling didn't change minds in our family, and it's not gonna shut down the opt out movement in AMerica.

you're right, she is JUST like Rosa Parks!! Exactly like that. Her poor, suffering CTY child who would totally get 5s, but needs to be shielded at all costs from the evil PARCC.

come on. ps I am not the only one posting here.

[Anonymous]

OP wants to have her cake and eat it too.

To make a statement about PARCC but opting her kid out, but to get excused absences.

Skip school, don't make extra work for the teacher and staff, and accept the unexcused absences.

Although OP could also be one of those people who has already pulled her kid out of school several days for family events and vacations and has used up her 5 unexcused absences already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?

Long division is different from supporting the Rhee agenda and her acolytes.

Michelle Rhee has been gone for a long time now. Before PARCC we had DC-CAS and before that something else. You can blame Michelle Rhee for connecting the results of hte test to teacher evaluations, but not for having kids spend 3-6 hours on annual standardized tests.

She supported the Bush NCLB testing regime. When Duncan came in he put it on steroids with Race to the Top, waivers, and common core.

Rhee supported all of that and continued her interference through her Students First organization.

In 2010, when she left, the Mayor put Rhee's top deputy in charge. Kaya only recently left.

These are still Rhee policies now being implemented by her ideological successors.

Please read the work by Diane Ravitch. I oppose corporate education reform and the greater erosion of my Federal privacy rights through national organizations such as PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?

Long division is different from supporting the Rhee agenda and her acolytes.

Michelle Rhee has been gone for a long time now. Before PARCC we had DC-CAS and before that something else. You can blame Michelle Rhee for connecting the results of hte test to teacher evaluations, but not for having kids spend 3-6 hours on annual standardized tests.

She supported the Bush NCLB testing regime. When Duncan came in he put it on steroids with Race to the Top, waivers, and common core.

Rhee supported all of that and continued her interference through her Students First organization.

In 2010, when she left, the Mayor put Rhee's top deputy in charge. Kaya only recently left.

These are still Rhee policies now being implemented by her ideological successors.

Please read the work by Diane Ravitch. I oppose corporate education reform and the greater erosion of my Federal privacy rights through national organizations such as PARCC.

The problem is that folks who march in lock step with the reformers tend to have a very limited knowledge of education policy history and even less interest in learning about it. This is shown over and over in these threads, such as when dummies come in saying "you were for charters and testing when Obama did them dur dur dur", with no understanding whatsoever that the people opposing DeVos et al now were also opposing Duncan's foolish policies and those long before his.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later. I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.

Are you for real????? Do you not understand testing conditions, which is completely different from a regular day. Keep your kid at home for the day, ask for the testing calendar in advance and keep your kid home for the morning or afternoon, tell your kid to put their head down and don't test, or tell them to do the best they can and don't sweat it!!! Stop making a stressful day for the school re. logistics even more difficult. IT really is not that difficult

[Anonymous]

OP is just a weird freak.

We ALL know the type. Carry on people, carry on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is just a weird freak.

We ALL know the type. Carry on people, carry on.

You sound like a school system employee.