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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/02/parcc_jersey_city_teachers_parents_technology.html

[b]PARCC prep 'sucking the life out of children,' Jersey City parents, teachers say[/b]

JERSEY CITY — Lisa Rodrick, an educator for 21 years who teaches reading to grades 3, 4 and 5, wears a button to work every day.

So do the other 80 teachers at Alexander D. Sullivan School Number 30 Elementary School, she said.

"Children should be chasing bubbles, not filling them in," Rodrick's button reads.

It's a silent protest against standardized testing, a kind of protest Rodrick believes is happening in other buildings, too.

[b]"Before we decided to switch our weekly tests, I had an 85 percent passing rate. I now have an 85 percent failing rate [in my third grade class]," she said. "It's taken the joy out of reading, just for reading, to learn a lesson out of the story... Common Core and PARCC are sucking the life out of the children. It's asking them to do skills that they're not cognitively ready for."[/b][/quote]

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