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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This week, we spoke to our conservative DCPS principal about opting out. Predictably, he argued that taking the PARCC provides invaluable practice in the standardized test taking your 21st Century American student can't escape.

Test-taking practice is a lousy reason for having the high-stakes testing tail used in earlier grades to wag the curricular dog. Kids can access practice tests on-line if they are approaching their first standardized test. I've known kids whose first standardized test was the high school graduation test, and they did fine. Ditto for the Finnish kids who don't experience the kinds of silly tests we use, but then knock it out of the park on the PISA tests.[/quote]

If you care about opt-out, you need to attend the OSSE listening sessions about their state plan and let your voice be heard.[/quote]

Maybe. OSSE and DCPS don't have a great track record on being honest players in listening to parents' voices. Many of us who participated in the public input "sessions" to give input to the boundary review in 2013 and the search for a chancellor came away feeling badly used. Pretty clearly, the decisions made didn't take our views into account.  These matters has been decided by the Mayor and the OSSE and DCPS leadership prior to the sessions. I feel like we have every reason to expect the same thing to happen this time around.

I can't stand Trump or Betsy DeVos, but if they succeed in curtailing DoE authority to punish states, the District and local communities for failing to serve up 95% compliance with state mandated standardized testing at the school level, I'll cheer. The system isn't remotely democratic in what should be a free society. Looks like the administration will seek to renegotiate ESSA in 2018.   [/quote]

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