Louisiana did a pilot PARCC test with about 50,000 students last year. No major technical glitches. Nearly 80% of students participating preferred the PARCC to the paper test it replaces (LEAP).
I think
this statement made the point about the PARCC opt-out movement quite eloquently:
"Logically speaking, none of this makes a bit of sense," the Council for a Better Louisiana said in a commentary piece Thursday. "This is really ... about Common Core standards. But refusing to take the test doesn't change the fact that we're still teaching to those standards. In fact, it means nothing except that we won't know whether those students actually learned what they were taught," CABL said.
I recommend the entire editorial (the impacts on students with disabilities might be of special interest to some parents here), particularly since it's coming from a right-leaning state, whose governor has just anointed himself the champion of the anti-CC movement... and he's getting almost no support from his own state, having already been resoundingly rejected by his own education department and the right-dominated legislature.
So, he's taking his argument to the people, asking parents to opt out. So far, the
people are rejecting that call, too:
Louisiana is arguing over what to do if public school students refuse to take new Common Core tests, but so far the number of families opting out in New Orleans remains tiny: 1.
