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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If opting your children out of PARCC is to do them a "disservice," rich kids are in real trouble.

The inconvenient truth is that their parents permanently opt them out by sending them to...independent schools![/quote]

Have you not read the thread? The comment you are responding to said .. either opt out of public schools that are focused on preparing kids for achievement tests or allow them to take the tests they spend so much time preparing for. The disservice is not getting to actually do the thing you've been practicing doing. (So, no inconvenient truth. Just poor reading comprehension on your part.)[/quote]

Please give us a good reason UMC DC children should take PARCC tests they've "spent so much time prepping for?"  So they can take pride in high scores that are virtually guaranteed by their parents' income? So that they're eligible for GT programs if they test advanced? To help teachers support their needs/learning gaps (although PARCC results don't come out until the summer or fall, by which time many of test takers will have moved onto a different school).

I teach my children that 3rd-8th grade corporate standardized tests are irrelevant to their lives.  I tell that they're much better off working hard to excel at school work and extra-curriculars that will almost certainly matter down the road than to ace an irrelevant test.  We focus on building toward a variety of other achievements that matter to us all.[/quote]

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