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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal 7th graders lose seven mornings of class from 8:45 to 11:00 if everything is going well. It’s not just 10 hours.[/quote]

Unbelievable.  Even so, like 4 Deal parents opt out.  What's wrong with DC?

Proud to be from NY, where nearly one quarter of PS families have been opting out in recent years.[/quote]

Does NY have the same consequences as DC?[/quote]

Much worse consequences, supposedly.  NYC routinely threatens to make kids whose parents refuse the test repeat grades.  But droves of parent organize, stick together and challenge, so state always seems to back down in the end.  They even changed the testing system to try to keep more parents on board, and stopped tying teacher evaluations to test scores,   Here, OSSE tries to frighten parents from opting out with threats of criminal child neglect charges for pushing the limit on absences under some of the country'strictest public school attendance rules.  The approach falls down for kids with excellent attendance.

We're not afraid that the kid will be harmed by taking the PARCC per se, but we see value in teaching the child to stand up for our deeply-held believe that the giant corporations shouldn't be in a position to rake in profits from parents forced to increase the bottom line for their fat cat execs through up to 10 hours of compulsory testing per year for up to 7 years.  [/quote]

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