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"The editorial board of a big-city newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, has gone on record as not only supporting the right of parents to have their children opt out of high-stakes standardized tests but also saying they are “right to protest” in this manner.

The editorial (below), refers to this news story in the Inquirer that discusses parents whose children are opting out of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams. It started this way:


Robin Roberts did the math, and she was astonished.

By Roberts’ count, her third grader was going to spend six school days — at least 12 hours — taking state standardized tests beginning this month at C.W. Henry Elementary, a public school in Mount Airy. Her fifth grader would lose nine school days to the PSSAs, and her eighth grader 11 days….

… “If our schools are not getting the resources to offer a basic education, what is happening?” she asked. “If it’s so important for us to do well on these tests, why are they not setting us up to succeed? The test doesn’t say anything about what my children have learned, what they’re able to achieve.” 

 

So she had them opt out. 

In Philadelphia and elsewhere around the country, standardized test scores have become the most important metric for evaluating students, teachers, schools, principals and even districts. This emphasis on scores from tests that don’t measure much of what students are supposed to know and do has led to a nationwide opt-out movement in which thousands of parents have decided not to allow their children to take the tests."

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‘You can’t expect much success on standardized tests when students don’t even have basic supplies’ — editorial