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Squinch

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1. Opt out anyway. You have good reason. There is no reason for your child to take the test, and

Reply to FourScore (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 08:20 PM

Apr 2014

it sounds like it would be detrimental to your child. The attachment of funding to testing is artificial, and is for the benefit of the testing companies and not the children. If more people opt out, that attachment will have to be severed. That needs to happen.

You will probably be hounded by the school. Do it anyway. They cannot make you make your child take the test.

Also, that school board is begging for a lawsuit: the "opt out" seats are taken??? Are you kidding me? So now your kid can't? Ridiculous.

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NYS EDUCATORS AND LAWYERS!! I have a question about NY school law [View all] FourScore Apr 2014 OP

Opt out anyway. You have good reason. There is no reason for your child to take the test, and Squinch Apr 2014 #1

If you decide not to opt out, you can try to get special accomodations for him. femmocrat Apr 2014 #2

He already has a 504 with special accommodations. FourScore Apr 2014 #3