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[quote=Anonymous]See concurrent thread.  Know that opting out presents real challenges in DC.  Go in with your eyes wide open because the hassle-filled process may not be for your family.  Summing up the advice dispensed:

*Know how many unexcused absences your child has tallied at the school before you begin the process.  If the kid can't miss several PARCC testing days, and perhaps another several school days when make-up tests are given, without nudging 9 or 10 unexcused absences (9 is the limit before an intervention), opting out almost certainly means that DCPS truancy officials will try to crack down.  Document PARCC related absences in correspondence with the school, in writing, keeping copies.  You can claim that the child is out sick for as many as 5 school days in row.  Keep good records of testing days missed in case you wind up fending off the school's registrar, a city social worker, or even a DC Superior Court judge.

*Keep your student home on testing days.  Your cannot expect your child to be supervised outside a testing room during PARCC testing in DC.  Deal will almost certainly not accommodate students opting out on campus.

* A day or two before your student returns to school, send admins and your child's homeroom teacher a brief note asking that your student not be subjected to make-up testing.  No need to explain your reasons, but you can.  Don't expect your note to be honored.  The school is likely to play hardball with you by plonking the kid in front of a computer to take make-up tests.

*Train your student to refuse make-up tests to the best of their ability.  With a MS kid, you might want to consider slipping them a cell phone they hide on their person, which they agree only to use to call you if they're placed in front of a computer to take a make-up test against your wishes.  Know that if a child is unable to duck out of make-up tests, he or she cannot be required to answer any questions.

*Don't engage with OSSE, administrators, or other parents on opting-out. While you should expect no support or clear information from any quarter, the language of the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) is still on your side, as are your 14th Amendment rights.  Truancy hassles are really the only cudgel DCPS has to try to prevent an in-boundary family from opting out, and it's a blunt instrument.

Good luck. 
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