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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe this was covered earlier in the thread, but I’m here late, and I’m just wondering what the motivation is for opting out. I mean, do you think your kids will be tortured or emotionally distressed while taking the test? If they’re experiencing intense anxiety about it before the test, perhaps that points to a different problem that should be addressed? And do you care that often the most affluent, privileged families are opting out, which means that test scores will be dragged down for the remaining students who actually take the test at your school? I just don’t get it.[/quote]

New poster here and I wonder the same and over the years have come to the conclusion that parents who go this ballistic over things like the PARCC have some degree of mental instability.  I am stopping short of saying mental illness.  The previous poster is talking about taking PARCC opposition as high as DC superior court  :shock: and is risking alienating her child from teachers and administrators all in the name of avoiding a 10 hour test.  Trust me, it's going to be far more harmful for her child (and her) to be known by the school as the PITA family than it is for her kid to take a standardized test.  There are plenty of things that are subjective in a school---class placements, teacher placements, a whole lot of grades (writing, etc) that you just don't want to be labeled as "the crazy, PITA family.  And whether or not your kid is behind it this PARCC crusade, the teachers are going to associate your child with you.   I have seen people take similar battles and ultimately it's just REALLY unfair to their kids.

Thankfully, the vast, vast, vast majority of highly educated (and not highly educated and everyone in between) DCPS parents are balanced humans who realize that the PARCC has it's positives and negatives.  As such, their kids sit and take the test and life goes on without a blip.  I myself have 3 kids in DCPS and have found the PARCC extraordinarily useful for them to take in terms of prepping for the inevitable standardized tests that they will face later in life.  My oldest just had his heart set on attending a particular "big3" private school for 7th grade.   Part of the application process was taking the ISEE or SSAT which are not easy tests.  However, my kid went in and rocked the test and wasn't at all phased by the format (a 4 hour multiple choice exam) because "it's just like the PARCC mom".   An an extension of this, the SAT and ACTs of today are based on Common Core standards and the PARCC is actually s shadow of these exams (and is thought by many to be why in part so many kids are scoring so high on the ACT and SAT in recent years).  The PARCC gives kids many years of practice with tests of this type.  [/quote]

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