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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm learning things. Sounds like OSSE's bark is much bigger than its bite where opting out goes.  Paper tiger.

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I mean what they going to do, tie your child to a chair and make them take the test? Of course not there is nothing they can do in reality. [b]Child and school however will have to deal with the consequences.[/b] [/quote]

[b]Such melodrama[/b].[/quote]

See 15:03[/quote]

It doesn't sound like 15:03 or her kid have suffered any consequences, unless you count the hassle of attending one brief meeting at her school, writing one short letter, and taking the kid out of the building for 1-2 hours each morning for one week of school.  The approach doesn't sound more disruptive than taking a kid out for a doctor's appointment.  Maybe DCPS will try to ban that practice as well....[/quote]

You do not have to take your kids out of the building, on any given day during testing their are kids who are not testing who are in a room with a supervised adult, usually the library. They either arrive to late for testing and have to take it on a make-up day, their teacher is testing but they are not, they have a different testing schedule for various reasons, they opted out. [b]DCPS cannot make you remove your child from a school building during testing.[/b] You do however, want to cause the least disruption as possible to staff and other children. [/quote]

Problem is that DC hasn't taken advantage of the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act of 2014) provision allowing a state to establish a path for objecting parents to opt out, as some states have. This means that admins at a particular DCPS don't necessarily see it as incumbent on them to assist opt out families, or at least assist them much.

We were told that our child was the only child in her EotP DCPS elementary school who has opted out in the past several years, and that no adult would be made available to supervise her during testing.

It's heartening to hear that some other DCPS programs are making staff available to supervise opt out students within school buildings, e.g. at Deal. Not the case at our DCPS, and presumably many others, particularly EotP (where, thus far, opting out seems to be extremely rare). Our school's Testing Coordinator made it clear to us that she did not feel obligated to ensure that our student was supervised within the school during testing.

No big deal, we've made the commitment to removing the kid from the school during testing blocks. It's a pain, but it's working, causing no disruption to staff and other children that we know of.  We'd much rather take the kid from the building than have her take the PARCC. We're glad that we've created an under-the-radar precedent that should also serve a younger sib through the years.[/quote]

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