Title: Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out (Updated February 2021) | FairTest
Headings: Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out (Updated February 2021)
Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out (Updated February 2021)
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Content: Increasingly, test results are used to label schools “underperforming” or “failing.” Many are then shut down or turned over to private operators. Opting out helps block the use of test results as weapons of destruction. Protect your child, a teacher, a school or a district from the harm of testing overuse and misuse. One parent opting out can protect her own child from test abuse. Many parents opting out together send a unified message that students’ time should be spent learning, not filling in bubbles on a test sheet. Urban parents can opt out to demand an end to school closures based on test scores and protest how testing fuels the school-to-prison pipeline. Suburban parents can do so to push for better use of classroom time and to show solidarity with urban parents. Students, parents and teachers can unite to stop the malpractice of using student test scores to evaluate educators. How to Opt Out
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