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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire thread is infuriating.  I'm a teacher... a dang good one with a portfolio of accolades from parents, students, and administers.  I've applied for and received numerous grants to attend professional development opportunities worldwide.  Yes, worldwide... so I know more about foreign education programs than most.  I can successfully teach advanced classes as well as remedial classes.  I mention this only to establish my credentials...

I am extremely against CCSC and PARCC.  I was supportive at first, until I witnessed the insulting and demeaning curricula and related tests.  So now I'm actively fighting these reforms, along with other teachers I respect.  Frankly, I value my integrity more than my paycheck.  I'll likely be fired one day for speaking out, so hopefully some of the parents who are unaware of the overtesting (18% of class time so far this year at my school... and the PARCC window is far from over) will listen to the dissenters so the sacrifice is worth it.

Oh... and no Tea Party member here.  Solid Democrat.  I would like to come back and read replies, but not if they are rude.  I am interested in a reasoned and respectful discussion related to CCSS and PARCC.[/quote]

Can you post a standard you find "demeaning"?

Also, can you tell what school district you are in that has required 18% of your instructional time to be devoted to testing, and what you are including in that figure?[/quote]

Not OP. Every test requires mandatory training and reading about procedure.  Especially computer based tests:hours watching client/ user  procedure on clips as well as three diffevent manuals  proctors. So that's for 2 PARCC administrations this year.  Three MAP administrations.Some schools also doing MSA and HSA administrations in addition. Yes, March to May is just testing.  But all our formative assessments lead up to that..all year. We have to produce data showing growth in selected areas similar to test objectives in informal testing. I think his or her assumption of 18 percent is LOW.
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