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[quote=Anonymous]I had a kid in IIS. The school wanted her to come in and take state exams (like PARCC) and I refused. They told me I “had” to.  I wrote a letter and said that my student was on IIS and could only tolerate a limited amount of work due to illness and that time was going to be spent on actual substantive curriculum and instruction that was of benefit to her - not on state-mandated testing that had no benefit to her or meaning in terms of her placement or academic skills.

Then I wrote another paragraph where I said that I appreciated that the school offered the opportunity to test as all disabled children should have access to testing just like other students but that in this situation it was medically inappropriate for her.

It turns out that from the school’s perspective they are worried that the state or federal DoE may interpret their lack of ability to get kids on IIS tested as a way of hiding those kids’ lack of progress.  My written letter helped the school  accept my refusal to permit testing because it was a CYA for them.

If the school is just insisting that DC come in for unit tests in classes, those can just be sent home and administered by the IIS teacher. [/quote]

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