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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can understand the opt-out parents were anxious kids. You have a valid reason.

The opt-out parents who think in their infinite wisdom that PARCC is useless are pathetic. Your hypocrisy sticks. [b]When you moved and were looking for a good school for your kids you used test scores to decide where to live. [/b]I'm sure you wouldn't have moved in-boundary, or even stayed, for a JKLM school if the scores were low.

Your privilege also comes through when you say you'll take time off and spend it indulging your child in this or that activity. Just sickening.

The test scores help. PARCC is not the best, but having no data is even worse.[/quote]

Speak for yourself. I put no stock in corporate elementary school standardized tests and have never relied on test scores to decide where I live. Test scores will invariably be high for a JKLM type public school, given that they mainly test parents' income and levels of educational attainment.

There simply is no forcing American families to acquiesce when they are against testing where children's scores are of no consequence to their families. When DCPS hassled and threatened us about opting out pre Covid, we talked the situation over with our eminently capable 5th grader, who was often bored at school. She headed into the test determined to bomb it in protest.  Things would have been different if a stellar score had provided a pathway to a GT program.

In a free society, what is sickening to one citizen is eminently worthwhile to another. That's the way free societies should work. If you want good data on education reform, collect it on something other than how students perform on lengthy poor-quality tests designed to turn profits for foreign companies (Pearson Education, not incorporated in the USA) and to turn eager young learners off learning. [/quote]

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