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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't sound like OP's talking about disturbing a class. You sign in at the elementary school's front desk, go to the child's classroom door, quietly beckon for him or her to come out, escort the child out of the building and return them to their class an hour or two later.  I do this all the time for medical appointments and have never had an issue. In a free country, opting out of the standardized tests should be an excused absence.  [/quote]

should it be an excused absence if say I decide I don't agree with how they are teaching long division and pull my child out as soon as the division lesson starts?[/quote]

Long division is different from supporting the Rhee agenda and her acolytes.[/quote]

Michelle Rhee has been gone for a long time now. Before PARCC we had DC-CAS and before that something else. You can blame Michelle Rhee for connecting the results of hte test to teacher evaluations, but not for having kids spend 3-6 hours on annual standardized tests.[/quote]

She supported the Bush NCLB testing regime.  When Duncan came in he put it on steroids with Race to the Top, waivers, and common core.

Rhee supported all of that and continued her interference through her Students First organization.

In 2010, when she left, the Mayor put Rhee's top deputy in charge.  Kaya only recently left.

These are still Rhee policies now being implemented by her ideological successors.

Please read the work by Diane Ravitch.  I oppose corporate education reform and the greater erosion of my Federal privacy rights through national organizations such as PARCC.

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The problem is that folks who march in lock step with the reformers tend to have a very limited knowledge of education policy history and even less interest in learning about it. This is shown over and over in these threads, such as when dummies come in saying "you were for charters and testing when Obama did them dur dur dur", with no understanding whatsoever that the people opposing DeVos et al now were also opposing Duncan's foolish policies and those long before his.[/quote]

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