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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, sorry, I should have stated that my child is only in elementary school.  So OSSE can't threaten to keep them from graduating.  What can they do to us if we opt out, other than perhaps hassle us over attendance issues?

I'll open a can of worms here if I start talking about how much I dislike what the current standardized testing regime has done to public education.  Suffice it to say that I'd be OK with the sort of standardized tests I took in elementary school.  They took less than two hours, with no test prep, or practice tests, or teacher evaluations linked to them.  Families got the results a couple months later, not 8 or 9 months hence as with the PARCC.

Before enrolling my kid in a Johns Hopkins summer CTY camp, we had to submit to an hour, yes one hour in total, of standardized testing for reading and math.  If Johns Hopkins only needs an hour to determine that my child is gifted, DCPS shouldn't need six days (with no GT program/reward for the child and family in the cards after the results are in).

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What I don't understand is if you don't like the current standardized testing regime then go to a private school.  Just skipping the couple days of testing doesn't change that your child's whole curriculum is focused on the test.  If you are willing to subject them to the curriculum then why the big fuss about the testing.   [/quote]

I agree with this. The problem isn't the test. The problem is teaching to the test.[/quote]

Not op.  The tests are a problem in themselves, and teaching to the test is an enormous problem.

But a family should not have to pay $40,000/child/year just because the education reformers have gotten this wrong.  Nor do most of us have the money to make it an option.

But opting out of the tests is a way to protest a bad policy.
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