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

[Anonymous]

Honestly, the PARCC is no big deal folks. Chill. Barely a blip on my kids' radars.

[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.

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

Get a life. You bring the kid in to be marked present first thing, so the DCPS attendance Nazis won't come at you, then take them home. Remember the case of the piano prodigy DCPS hassled so much over attendance that the parents withdrew her from Deal, and the mom who went to Mongolia on the adoption trip who got hit with a charge of criminal child neglect in the Superior Court, er, 18 months later? No stress for the school if the kid is marked present.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, the PARCC is no big deal folks. Chill. Barely a blip on my kids' radars.

Exactly, so no big deal if a kid or two in the school community is opted out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not pp, but wtf is wrong with you that you post this as an insult. Exactly why you are "that" mom.

[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.

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

Get a life. You bring the kid in to be marked present first thing, so the DCPS attendance Nazis won't come at you, then take them home. Remember the case of the piano prodigy DCPS hassled so much over attendance that the parents withdrew her from Deal, and the mom who went to Mongolia on the adoption trip who got hit with a charge of criminal child neglect in the Superior Court, er, 18 months later? No stress for the school if the kid is marked present.

sorry, a child has to attend 80% of the day to be marked present. If you are going to engage in civil disobedience you have to be prepared to accept the consequences.

[Anonymous]

New Poster. You don't get to decide how everyone should handle this.

[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.

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

Get a life. You bring the kid in to be marked present first thing, so the DCPS attendance Nazis won't come at you, then take them home. Remember the case of the piano prodigy DCPS hassled so much over attendance that the parents withdrew her from Deal, and the mom who went to Mongolia on the adoption trip who got hit with a charge of criminal child neglect in the Superior Court, er, 18 months later? No stress for the school if the kid is marked present.

sorry, a child has to attend 80% of the day to be marked present. If you are going to engage in civil disobedience you have to be prepared to accept the consequences.

Our DCPS employee/conformist friend again.

In theory, but which school logs how many minutes a day a kid is in the building? Ours marks a student as present if they turn up by 8:45, and leaves it at that. They aren't even asking for doctor's notes when you take a kid out for medical appointments, though they could. I can't see admins hassling a parent who sits in the cafeteria with a kid during testing hours. And I'm not convinced that opting out of the PARCC constitutes civil disobedience. Gray area in DC.

Over 100 Wilson sophomore and juniors blew off the PARCC last year. What were the consequences for them?

[Anonymous]

The Wilson students went to the testing room and randomly clicked on answers. Sonthey tanked the test on purpose. They didn't opt out.

No consequences for the students. This spring, if it were to happen again, there could be consequences for their teachers. This year student PARCC performance are supposed be a factor in teacher evaluations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The Wilson students went to the testing room and randomly clicked on answers. Sonthey tanked the test on purpose. They didn't opt out.

No consequences for the students. This spring, if it were to happen again, there could be consequences for their teachers. This year student PARCC performance are supposed be a factor in teacher evaluations.

THIS is what people should be protesting about

[Anonymous]

If our friends and neighbors with kids at Wilson can be believed, dozens of Wilson students didn't turn up for the 2016 PARCC at all. No consequences.

What do you PARCC enthusiasts get out of lambasting parents who view having states/DC force their public school children take standardized tests enriching for-profit entities as an infringement of their rights? OK, you disagree with their position. But why bother mocking them, and trying to frighten and shame them into compliance? Why not simply ignore them, and the hundreds of thousands of other American parents in their camp? Why not simply act on your beliefs and leave others to act on theirs?

FYI, the Murch principal leaves families opting out alone. No help, but no damaging attendance reports or other headaches either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If our friends and neighbors with kids at Wilson can be believed, dozens of Wilson students didn't turn up for the 2016 PARCC at all. No consequences.

What do you PARCC enthusiasts get out of lambasting parents who view having states/DC force their public school children take standardized tests enriching for-profit entities as an infringement of their rights? OK, you disagree with their position. But why bother mocking them, and trying to frighten and shame them into compliance? Why not simply ignore them, and the hundreds of thousands of other American parents in their camp? Why not simply act on your beliefs and leave others to act on theirs?

FYI, the Murch principal leaves families opting out alone. No help, but no damaging attendance reports or other headaches either.

Grow up, you can do whatever you want but the histonics are not convincing anyone to join your cause. There has been some form of standardized test given for decades now. You aren'"t going to change that by opting out. If you want to change the testing requirements established by no child left beyond, protesting at the neighborhood level is going to accomplish nada.

[Anonymous]

My DC @ Wilson didn't do the PARCC last year, I didn't keep DC out of school. I just instructed DC to go to class and AP review, instead of PARCC. I saw no point to having a kid miss review in order to take the PARCC geometry test when that class was done in middle school.
Wilson could instruct teachers to schedule review outside of the testing window, if it can't reason with DCPS...the AP schedule is not a surprise.
If the test results really count this year, is it fair that the stats teacher or calculus teacher is impacted by material taught in middle school?
DCPS sucks, in this regard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If our friends and neighbors with kids at Wilson can be believed, dozens of Wilson students didn't turn up for the 2016 PARCC at all. No consequences.

What do you PARCC enthusiasts get out of lambasting parents who view having states/DC force their public school children take standardized tests enriching for-profit entities as an infringement of their rights? OK, you disagree with their position. But why bother mocking them, and trying to frighten and shame them into compliance? Why not simply ignore them, and the hundreds of thousands of other American parents in their camp? Why not simply act on your beliefs and leave others to act on theirs?

FYI, the Murch principal leaves families opting out alone. No help, but no damaging attendance reports or other headaches either.

That's because DCPS has been having most high school students take PARCC multiple times -- which it unnecessary according to OSSE (only supposed to take it once, in 10th, during high school since all DCPS students take SATs as seniors). But from 3rd grade to 8th grade, it's an annual assessment. The kids who say they blew off PARCC had probably taken it the year before -- so OSSE isnt' going to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC @ Wilson didn't do the PARCC last year, I didn't keep DC out of school. I just instructed DC to go to class and AP review, instead of PARCC. I saw no point to having a kid miss review in order to take the PARCC geometry test when that class was done in middle school.
Wilson could instruct teachers to schedule review outside of the testing window, if it can't reason with DCPS...the AP schedule is not a surprise.
If the test results really count this year, is it fair that the stats teacher or calculus teacher is impacted by material taught in middle school?
DCPS sucks, in this regard

Yes, and I think that was just flat out a mistake and since the test is new, these kids were caught in the administrative kurfluffle AP review was an obvious priority. They better start getting this right and test kids when they take the actual class and at no other time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If our friends and neighbors with kids at Wilson can be believed, dozens of Wilson students didn't turn up for the 2016 PARCC at all. No consequences.

What do you PARCC enthusiasts get out of lambasting parents who view having states/DC force their public school children take standardized tests enriching for-profit entities as an infringement of their rights? OK, you disagree with their position. But why bother mocking them, and trying to frighten and shame them into compliance? Why not simply ignore them, and the hundreds of thousands of other American parents in their camp? Why not simply act on your beliefs and leave others to act on theirs?

FYI, the Murch principal leaves families opting out alone. No help, but no damaging attendance reports or other headaches either.

Grow up, you can do whatever you want but the histonics are not convincing anyone to join your cause. There has been some form of standardized test given for decades now. You aren'"t going to change that by opting out. If you want to change the testing requirements established by no child left beyond, protesting at the neighborhood level is going to accomplish nada.

You don't get it. Some of us aren't trying to convince anybody to join a cause. We don't like PARCC test prep, the way the test works, what is stands for, the power, influence and wealth of the corporate test entities, or the way the data is used. We think our kids gain more from quietly opting out than opting in, whatever the consequences. We'll leave the protesting to others.

I was OK with the IOWA tests I took as a kid.