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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a huge fan of standardized tests like PARCC, but it kind of goes along with the territory when you choose to attend public school. There has to be some kind of standardized test for the purpose of accountability. I don't think that parents should be allowed to opt out--if you choose to send your kids to public school then there are certain requirements they have to adhere to, and PARCC is one of them. For what it's worth, I send my kids to public school. [/quote]

I don't have a choice to send my kids to school, the government requires it.  [/quote]

What?  More than 3% of American families with school-age children home school, legally.  No state seeks to prevent home schooling.  Most states don't require home schoolers to submit to standardized tests.  Moreover, the Every Child Succeeds Act doesn't require children to take state-mandated standardized tests.  What it does is allow states to enact opt-out policies, or not, and allows the federal government to withhold funding from individual schools where at least 95% of children are not tested.  The government has never withheld funding, not once in the 20 years No Child Left Behind and now the ECSA have been in force, so it's an idle threat.   [/quote]

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