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Posted on 04/22/2014 5:04:17 AM PDT by servo1969
A school district asked the police to prohibit certain students from setting foot on school property because their parents had privacy concerns about Common Core-aligned standardized testing, and wished to opt their kids out.
The incident happened at Marietta City Schools in Marietta, Georgia. The Finney family didn’t want their three children — in third grade, fifth grade and ninth grade — to participate in the state-mandated Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, partly because of the vast amounts of data the government is collecting about their children, and partly because they think the tests don’t serve a compelling educational interest, according to The Marietta Daily Journal.
Their sentiments are shared by a growing number of parents around the country, who increasingly see standardized tests as a costly bureaucratic tool that allows the government to gather personal information about kids. Criticisms of the tests are closely linked to criticisms of Common Core, the new national education curriculum standards that are fiercely opposed by both conservative grassroots and teachers unions.
“They are collecting data on our children,” said Mary Finney in a statement. “Now, with Common Core there is such a large amount of information and data collected on children. People don’t realize it. We don’t want to sound like we’re wearing tin-foil hats, but they want to track our kids from kindergarten through college.”
The Finney family attempted to opt out of the tests, but administrators were unsure whether they were legally permitted to do so.
And then — at West Side Elementary School — a police officer barred the Finneys from setting foot on school property.
If the kids weren’t going to take the tests, their presence at school was a “kind of trespassing thing,” according to the officer.
Administrators sent an email to the parents advising them that their children would also be barred from attending school on CRCT makeup test days.
Randy Weiner, a school board chairman, said he would not force the kids to take the tests, although he found it hard to sympathize with their position.
“Generally speaking, if it were my kids who simply were stressed out about taking the CRCT, I would tell them to get with the program and that they would be taking the CRCT today,” he said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the school district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
““Generally speaking, if it were my kids who simply were stressed out about taking the CRCT, I would tell them to get with the program and that they would be taking the CRCT today,” he said in a statement.”
Everyone into the showers, now.
Really officer?
Which law explains “kind of a trespass thing”?
This arbitrary retaliation for refusing to support government control.
The PUBLIC school is NOT the administrator’s PRIVATE property, and they may NOT exercise arbitrary means to control access.
How are they pushing Common Core if the teachers’ union(s) are truly against it?
It’s called a “Banana Republic”, Hopey changey kinda thingy.
Oh sure you will always have those few, outspoken teachers that put politics ahead of common sense (like people who think Obamacare is a good thing) but, once they have to start teaching this crap, they don't like it at all. They see it for the junk it really is!
A very good question with a simple answer: Federal money. States that know how rotten Common Core is are not willing to give up the federal funding that is conditioned upon adoption of CRCT. Federal money is the ultimate addiction.
These parents pay town taxes I assume....therefore, don’t they have a right to be on school grounds and to meet with the principal? Serious question....
Reminds me of the riots that took place in the early days of forced schooling - back in the days when parents still wanted to raise their children.
But these parents don’t mind their kids being raised by complete strangers. They just wish the complete strangers would do a better job.
Professional courtey; one public service union helping another
Actually principals are obligated by law to control physical access to the school building. Procedures must be in place to know who is in the building and who wants to enter the building. It’s part of the deal with caring for hundreds of other peoples children.
Thank you. Good point.
Those who celebrate Teddy Roosevelt should remember his acts set the precedent for massive federal land grabs in the West.And he promoted American involvement in unjust war,i.e. the Spanish-American war.
Later ,Wilson got us into WWI while the progressives of the time weakened states by changing the Senate election process and instituting the income tax.Of course the tax was to pay for a war the US shouldn't have fought. Like the telephone tax was to pay for the Spanish-American War;that temporary tax lasted a hundred years.And we have a huge national debt due to more un-needed wars. Progressives of the late 1800s pushed for more government involvment to save the people from the effort of making good decisions in their daily lives.. Progressives,modern liberals,communists,enviromentalists,global warming nuts,professional politicians , and all the like want money and power over everyone else.
Actually that “control” can NOT be arbitrarily applied to students who’s parents disagree with Common Core.
maybe it’s not literal in this case but governance by the badge and the pointed gun is clearly now the law
I believe the lack of consent by the governed should be conveyed via the baseball bat, lest things get out of control.
Public schools don’t teach, they indoctrinate! That’s why
my kids went to private schools.
Another Reason to HomeSchool
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