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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Scattering testing times at short notice is a calculated strategy to deter from parents from opting out/cutting into the tester's bottom line.  It's used by school systems to raise hurdles to civil disobedience. Some DC schools will let students come to school, be marked present, stay in the building supervised by an adult caregiver registered with the school, then return to class once testing has been completed that day (no unexcused absence incurred). Other schools expect parents opting out to keep students home on testing days, but not on make-up test days (without trying to push a make-up test on your kid).  I don't know how Deal handles opt outs, but our new ES principal has been pretty reasonable this year (former head wasn't).

As was pointed out on the other thread, your child's teachers' assessments won't be impacted if a few of his or her students don't take the PARCC - the Dept. of Ed, school systems and schools do not strive for 100% compliance, particularly for white or Asian high SES students.  Moreover, hardly anybody in DC has opted out since the DC-CAS was introduced in the late 90s.  If you're going to opt out this year, you don't have to worry about teachers assessments.  Your kid's PARCC won't be graded (because your kid will have no PARCC).

If you want to try to help individual teachers as you opt out, you can send your principal and admins up the DCPS chain a a signed letter, cc'd to the teacher, offering a family recommendation for the instructor.  The letter mentions that you are opting out of the PARCC although you very much appreciate the teacher's excellent work.  We do this every year. [/quote]

Teacher here.

While I detest the PARCC for a number of reasons, I think you give DCPS too much credit in the strategy and planning department. My school did scattered testing because we didn't have enough laptops for everyone. I thank you for fighting this fight. At some point we have to wrangle back control of our schools. [/quote]

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