Grumpy Educators: Illinois Parents: "No good reasons for this excessive testing."

Grumpy Educators: Illinois Parents: "No good reasons for this excessive testing.":

Illinois Parents: "No good reasons for this excessive testing."

by Sandra

"Since I found out two years ago how much experimental testing was happening, I’ve opted him out of dozens of tests. He has skipped the CPS Learning First Benchmark Assessments, the Scantron Performance Series tests, and the pilot Common Core. CPS administered each of these standardized tests in several subjects, several times a year. But there are no good reasons for this excessive testing."

No good reasons indeed and no good reason for parents to get the runaround, be threatened, intimidated, punished, or misinformed, a disturbing and familiar