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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No DC public school will tell you that you can opt out. You simply do it if you want. The only tool admins have to come at you with us attendance, meaning no threat whatsoever this year if your kid continues to log in daily. We’ve opted out of PARCC several times without facing consequences despite having been told we couldn’t.[/quote]

Thanks for this. I've always wanted to opt out but didn't have the guts. Kudos to you.[/quote]

Just don't have your kid attend on PARCC days.  [/quote]

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (which replaced No Child Left Behind under Obama), states can develop opt out-policies and practices for parents, or not develop them. Only half a dozen states have developed opt-out policies. DC has no opt-out policy.  If you contact OSSE, their testing admins will tell you that every kid has to take PARCC.  This is bunk.

What I've done in the past few years, is arranged with admins at our DCPS for me to come get my kids the minute testing starts, and return them to class the minute test resumes, like signing out to take your kid to a medical appointment.  I can't trust the school to supervise the kids during testing time, so this is a hassle (but worth it).  I photographed my signatures on the sign-out sheets, with "OPTING OUT OF PARCC" in the "Reason for Signing Out" column, in case we end up dealing with social workers and judges over attendance/criminal child neglect charges later.  Nobody has ever followed up from DCPS' end.

This year, what are they going to do to us for opting out?  The reality is that they've lost their in-person attendance cudgel.

Did you know that in Indiana, one of the last states to hang onto PARCC, so many parents were opting out in 2019, almost one-third, that the state substituted the 10-hour PARCC for a 4-hour state test?  One the main complaints about PARCC is that it's much too long for elementary school students.  The longer the test, the more Pearson Education staff get paid to develop and grade tests, and the richer the Pearson CEO, James Fallon gets.  Pearson isn't even an American company, they're incorporated in London.  [/quote]

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