We live in a state that has virtually no homeschooling requirements. So, compliance is not an issue. They want DS's score to help the school. DS is not going to sit for 8+ hours for PARCC to help the school out. (And having just looked at the PARCC sample test, I don't blame him.) He will be doing MAP testing, which I consider to actually be valuable.
We sent in our refusal letter and haven't heard back.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that a child who doesn't attend a school gets counted as a student of said school for standardized testing. I call shenanigans.
My DD took her state test at the local public school, but it did not count towards their totals. In my state, part of the process of registering for homeschooling involves the creation of a pseudo-institution and giving your homeschool a name. DD's test results were credited to Weirdo Homeschool, not Local Public School.
