My #PARCC refusal letter
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February 23, 2015
Dear ------------------,
We are writing to inform you that, as per our parental rights under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, we are refusing to allow our daughter, -------------, to sit for the PARCC PBA and EOY.
Research has shown, and Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer/Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting at the NJ Department of Education has publicly stated, that the PARCC is not a diagnostic test as has been claimed. It will do nothing to assist our daughter’s current teachers in her educational progress, but may in fact unfairly harm their careers instead because student test scores are tied to their evaluations. As we’re sure you know, when the tests were administered in New York last year, scores plummeted because the test has been shown to be deeply flawed and in many cases, developmentally inappropriate. This is not fair to our Marie Corfield: My #PARCC refusal letter: