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[quote=Anonymous]as a parent and also an organizer for United Opt Out i am generating an opt out group for Maryland (and ajoining states interested). Yes legally ACCORDING TO THE 14TH AMENDMENT MSA is going out, PARCC is coming in--parents need to know that new forms of data collection including PRIVATE data from pre-K to grade 12 will be used to TRACK your child. Common Core and PARCC are NCLB on steroids. Schools and districts use "scare tactics" and intimidation to keep parents from opting out. for example, NOT ONE school, or teacher, has ever actually been closed or negatively affected by kids opting out. there is no evidence to support that threat. There is AMPLE evidence to how high stakes testing HARMS  both our children, and public education.
When pressed to the fire, they cannot force you. Send an email to unitedoptoutnational@gmail.com for more information and I will contact you directly from there.

Supreme Court Decisions and Parental Rights

Parental rights, especially in the area of education, are broadly protected by United States Supreme Court decisions. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

In Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510, 535 (1925), the  U.S. Supreme Court declared that, “The child is not the mere creature of  the State: those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”;

In recognition of both the right and responsibility of parents to control their children’s education, the U.S. Supreme Court has further stated, “It is cardinal with us that the custody, care, and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the State can neither supply nor hinder.” Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166 (1944);

The U.S. Supreme Court has also recognized that the right of parents to raise their children free from unreasonable state interferences is one of the unwritten liberties protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and criticized a state  legislature for trying to interfere “with the power of parents to control the  education of their own.” Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 401 (1923).

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