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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS teacher here. We were given documentation that said the policy is to not allow opt outs. So we aren’t this year. [/quote]

What level are you talking about?  Grades 3-5?  Middle school?  10th grade PARCC?

Teacher, what does this mean?  What mechanism does a school have to prevent parents from opting out? How can you, as teachers, prevent parents from finding out when testing will be done and removing their child from school during those blocks of time, returning the kid to class once testing has ended on a particular school day?

You can mark the kid absent for the hours of testing, but what good will that do?  You're hoping to drag the family opting out before a social worker, a judge or both?  If the child has an excellent attendance record, what tool does DCPS or OSSE have to enforce compliance?  They can't retain the kid in their grade for failing to take the test under the law, and judge is really unlikely to nail a family for criminal child neglect if about the only school the kid has missed all year was to opt out of the PARCC.

Unless more than 5% of the students in a particular school opt out, the school's scores don't suffer.  To my knowledge school in DC has had anywhere near 5% of students opt out, so why bother hassling parents who opt out?

Sounds like we're talking about idle threats.  Our admins are working with us on opting out - they either didn't get the memo, or are disregarding it.[/quote]

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