Part 5: High Stakes Testing and Opting Out: The Push Back
The Push Back: Opting Out
Parents, teachers, principals, school board members and education administrators are beginning to understand that this excessive focus on testing has hurt their schools and their students.
In Seattle, for example, the MAP test is administered twice each school year with the choice for the student to be tested a third time. There is also the statewide Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) that is administered to students in Seattle. That is three if not four standardized tests that a student in public school is required to take unless the parents opt their student out of the testing.
Because of this over testing phenomenon, parents, communities, and even states are signing resolutions to opt out of standardized testing and students are being
