Pueblo SD70 in CO Attempts to Enforce Testing via Online Registration Form - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform

Pueblo SD70 in CO Attempts to Enforce Testing via Online Registration Form - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform:

Pueblo SD70 in CO Attempts to Enforce Testing via Online Registration Form

As Opt Out/Refusal of high stakes testing takes corporate ed. reform by storm this year we will be sharing information as quickly as possible to alert members to potential scenarios districts will use to push back against our determined efforts to refuse high stakes testing as we reclaim our public schools.  The following screen shot is from an online enrollment form required for Pueblo County School District 70 in Colorado.  Look carefully at the form (by Info Snap – an electronic form the district is using – it is a Pearson product). Simply click on picture to enlarge. A Pueblo SD70 parent has asked that the district  remove the section regarding Contract for Admissions, which states a student must participate in all school, district and state testing. The enrollment form also states that a child may need to be transferred to another school if they violate any of the conditions outlined in the statement of contract for admissions. We received information from another Pueblo SD70 parent who simply skipped this question and completed the registration form; as we get more info. we will keep you updated. We share this in an effort to expose pushback tactics  so that others may be prepared to fight back. Please check your state opt out/refusal guide for more information and share this post widely. We refuse these tests as an act of civil disobedience.  It is our parental right to refuse these tests and protect our children from a corporate/business model which denies our children the opportunity to think and develop as problem solving citizens.  These tests are creating immense profit for corporations while our schools are slowly starved of funding which could be used for classroom resources, small class size, art, music, PE, counselors, librarians, nurses, teachers and more. Attempts to halt opt out/refusal will be intense in 2014-2015 because the Common Core tests (PARCC/SBAC) must succeed in order for corporate profit to thrive and ultimately privatize our public schools – in other words – folks will be hell bent on getting our Pueblo SD70 in CO Attempts to Enforce Testing via Online Registration Form - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform: