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[quote=Anonymous]Students are catching on: They can CRUSH these standards if they stick together. IF MOST refuse the test, it falls apart.

From PBS:

Why some students are refusing to take the Common Core test

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/students-refusing-take-common-core-test/

JUDY WOODRUFF: Testing for the Common Core learning standards in U.S. public schools began earlier this month. [b]And just as a rebellion is brewing against the Common Core, there are now protests building against the national tests associated with them.
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[b]Reports of students refusing to take the tests are coming in daily, and if those numbers keep building, it could endanger the goals of the standards themselves.[/b]

JOHN MERROW: I[b]n Newark, high school students occupied the superintendent’s office for three days, one of their issues, the Common Core test.
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STUDENT: This is a pretty big deal. [b]We’re taking back our district.[/b]

TANAISA BROWN, Newark Students Union: Politicians actually get very nervous when they see how many people are against one thing. [b]They have money power. They have political power, but we have people power.[/b]

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WOMAN: We’re fighting back.

STUDENT: I’m trying to push back against the test because I’m not just a number and I’m not a dollar sign.

MAN: We are refusing the test. Refuse the test.[/b]

JOHN MERROW: And it’s happening in the state capital.

RAISA RUBIN-STANKIEWICZ, Student: In conclusion, the PARCC high-stakes standardized tests will hurt our students, teachers, and schools. That is why I am refusing the PARCC test.

[b]When I heard about what happened in New York, how like 60,000 people opted out, and I thought, wow, that’s something we can do about it.[/b][/quote]

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