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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You folks don't see the irony.

You won't even consider a local school for your darling snowflakes if the test scores aren't high enough, but yet you want to opt out your own children when it's time for them to take those same tests. Hmm...[/quote]

No kidding. And you like to use the PARCC scores of high performing DC schools to validate your decision not to move to Maryland. [/quote]

... where you'd still have to take PARCC anyway![/quote]

Actually, no student has to take the PARCC, in any state. Students can't be held back a grade if they don't take the test (this hasn't happened anywhere, and the Dept. of Ed has never withheld Title I funds for low PARCC turnout either).  School systems trying to enforce compliance usually nail parents for violating attendance policies. Parents may end up in court, where judges toss out PARCC-linked charges of criminal child neglect/truancy.  Big headache to land in court but the fact remains that nobody has to take state mandated standardized tests to use public schools in this country.  States like FL that have hassled groups of families and schools over compliance tend to regret it, because kids can't be forced to try hard on the PARCC.  If backed into a legal corner, some opt-out minded parents will coach kids to bomb the test.  States are learning to leave opters out alone.  [/quote]

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