Can A Child Be Accused of Insubordination for Refusing the Test?
A Nevada mom contacted me about the issues arising from a parent’s request to opt his child out of standardized testing and her letter appears below:
Whose Child is this Anyway?
For the past several months parents of public school children have been asking, insisting, and demanding that their children not be forced to take a standardized test. Why are parents of public school children asking, insisting, and demanding that their children not be forced to take standardized tests?
Here’s the answer – Because parents are being kicked to the curb by people in positions that they have somehow, elevated in their own minds, as being larger or otherwise more important than the parents. When a parent makes a decision for their child that decision is recognized by natural law, if not out of respect or deference to the parent. Furthermore, the parent need not give a reason. Why you ask – because parents are the final authority.
It’s a fringe thought isn’t it? Parents have not only a say in their children’s lives but they have the say in their children’s lives? One more time – parents have not only a say in their children’s lives but the