9/1/14 COMMON CORE TEST REFUSAL LETTER Dear Principal and Superintendent of Schools of _______________: We are writing today to formally inform you and the _____________ District, of our decision to REFUSE to allow our child, ________________________________________________, to participate in any standardized assessments (commonly called Common Core tests) and accompanying questionnaires for the 2014-2015 school year. Our refusal should in no way reflect on the teachers, administration, or school board. This refusal is based and concerns we as well as many American parents are beginning to have that the recent changes in educational philosophy and methodology imposed on us by Common Core are too experimental and are harmful. Not only that but the data mined from out children is inaccurate and not secure. We parents cannot tolerate our children being tested about material of which we have no prior knowledge. Accompanying this REFUSAL is our demand that we receive PRIOR knowledge of all tests whether Common Core related or not. We the parents will decide how best to prepare for such test days. We request a schedule of all tests be sent to us forthwith. On test days we will either keep our child at home or if you provide optional activity or reading time we may choose to send our child to school on those days. Our child will not participate in any assessments other than those solely used for the individual classroom teacher and for her to use to calculate report card grades. We REFUSE to allow any data to be collected in any way from our Child, _________________________, without our permission. Any assessment, besides final exams, whose data is used to determine school ranking, teacher effectiveness, state or federal longitudinal studies or any other purpose other than for the individual classroom teacher’s own use to improve his or her instruction, may not be presented to our child. Therefore, our child, ________________________ will not participate in the following: -Any questionnaires given by the school or any other while in school. All questionnaires need to be approved by me, the parent. -Any State Assessment -Any benchmark exams / pre–assessments connected to “Student Learning Objectives” -Any surveys, or “field tests” given by corporate or government entities or testing companies -Any exam used to formulate an evaluation or score for teachers or school, other than the final exams for each subject. We anticipate that our child will be treated fairly during assessment periods, as this was not his decision, but ours, as his parents. Since the benchmark assessments will be taking place early in the school year, please inform us as to the plan during the time when the assessments will take place. We do apologize in advance for the inconvenience to the administration, the faculty, and staff. Sincerely, ___________________________________
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:04:15 +0000
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