Common Core is for the Birds
You may (or may not) have heard about the current news surrounding Kansas and the lesser prairie chicken…. Kansas will join lawsuit over federal listing of lesser prairie chicken as threatenedEXCERPT:Kansas will join a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species, Gov. Sam Brownback announced Friday.“The federal governme
Schools’ Bad Behavior Toward Parents Seeking Assessment Opt-Out
It seems that some schools are not handling parents seeking to opt their students out of assessments, in particular Common Core-aligned assessments, very well.
I reported on Friday at Caffeinated Thoughts that a California mom, Katherine Duran, was literally “suspended” from her school for 14 days after a brief conversation with her son’s principal. She tried to reclaim assessment packets her 12-year-old son gave out that were deemed “inappropriate” by the principal and confiscated. The principal, Rosario Guillen, claimed Duran was physically aggressive. Duran denies that ever occurred.
After the “suspension” Duran claims her son continued to be harassed when he brought more packets to school.
“In the school’s repeated attempts to block the information from being disseminated to the kids on campus, my son has been abused, his right to distribute leaflets on campus violated, his opt out forms confiscated. When he returned each day with more, the kids who had previously had their forms and letters confiscated received replacements, only to have them confiscated, yet again. My son was removed from class, double-teamed and harassed by the principal and another teacher, his lunch pail searched, his friends made to fear taking the forms and another kid forced to open his backpack in search of this ‘offensive, inappropriate material,’” Duran shared.Duran alleges that her son was denied classroom instruction several times throughout the ordeal this week and last, once when he was pulled out for 90 minutes (on Tuesday 3/26/14), while he was interrogated and intimidated, the principal double-teaming him with