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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"LMAO! It is the anti-testing folks who are engaging in those very tactics, of clouding the facts, ignoring relevant FACTS, and now introducing an imagined bogeyman wanting other posters to believe that there's a "Common Core PR team" operating here."

+million.  We are almost through with elementary school and I have yet to see signs of any "high stakes testing," and the same is true with my friends who have kids at other public schools.

I also don't understand the harm of having one's child take the PARCC.  It's a learning experience, regardless of whether it is a good assessment, and the results are not going to determine a child's future.  In fact, there's no need for a child to know how s/he performed.
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Clouding facts again, and not being specific -- speaking broadly of "testing" and not the specific type of testing in question.  PARCC (and previously DC-CAS) are high-stakes for the schools and teachers -- and not at all for the kids.  The harm to kids of such testing is that the time spent preparing for and taking such tests detracts from actually learning.

And what's with common core in quotes above?  it was not quoted in the original or even mentioned in that context.  The PR effort was not connected to any group -- nice try at obfuscation and planting false ideas --  but if it had been, it would have been to DCPS, who is well-known for paying large sums (sometimes through donors) for PR efforts.[/quote]

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