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[quote=Anonymous]It's certainly not a matter of being special; it's a matter of standing up for one's beliefs. In NJ last year, more than one quarter of public school families opted out of PARCC testing, mainly to protest the way teachers' job security is tied to increases in test scores. Some of us don't care for the commercialization of public education in this country through hundreds of millions of dollars lavished on private testing companies like Pearsons.

If your 8th grader presents a competitive application, he or she will be admitted to a DC application HS with or without 7th grade PARCC scores. Our contrarian neighbor opted out of the 7th grade PARCC, her daughter was admitted to Walls this year, mainly on the strength of SAT II English and math scores in the 600s and a strong interview. Some states no longer bother with standardizes tests linked to the Common Core - they use SATs to evaluate students instead. Getting your child going on SAT testing in MS doesn't hurt.
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