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[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]

OK, so how do you force objecting families to take "required" standardized tests seriously? What's your plan to address the growing problem of families not taking them remotely seriously?

In FL, a judge in a state court recently ruled that children whose families opt out risk being kept back a grade. Now opt-out minded parents in FL are banding together to coach their children to bomb required test to fight back. Tens of thousands of FL families are doing this. At DC's own Wilson HS, scores of the highest-performing kids refused to take last year's PARCC, skewing results dramatically. These families faced no consequences.  It seems to me that trampling on thoughtful civil disobedience is a losing battle for government, an area where thoughtful local, state or federal officials don't want to go to respect constitutional rights and deeply held beliefs about the separation between public institutions and corporate entities.  If Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill weren't giving, and grading, most Common Core linked tests, my guess is that resistance to the tests would fade.

On this thread, PP's have argued that we all take PARCC tests scores seriously in DC when school shopping. I'm not buying it. What we take seriously almost to a high SES family are school FARMs rates. 
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