A. It prevents 95% of students from taking the test, meaning all test results for those who got stuck taking it, are void and null.
B, It prevents a GIANT blemish on your child’s permanent record; one that should have never been there.
C. It prevents your schools’ takeover based on faulty data.
D. It prevents your good teacher from losing her job, based on faulty data.
E. It prevents your child from being bussed away from his closed school to another one across town, based off of faulty data.
F. The tests are set for grades 2 levels above what is being tested.
G. The tests do not show what your child has or has not learned.
H. The tests psychologically profile children into groups who aren’t and who are prone to be favorably cultivated for later sexual abuse.
I. Your child’s information is advertised for sale on pedophile Internet chat rooms.
J. Your child is labeled as a FAILURE, despite grades, good homework skills, and a ample knowledge base.
K. Your family’s political affiliation, your religion, and police record are listed on your child’s profile to be looked up by anyone who pays enough for the privilege.
L. You are never allowed to ever see the test… Maybe your child answered correctly but was given a random score. No teacher, no principal, no school official, no parent, EVER sees the graded test…. You simply have to trust the most untrustable people we have ever seen in our lifetimes, when told your child’s alleged score.
M. These scores are used by big business, investors, and bribed elected officials (Sokola, Scott, Jacques) to close schools, pay people less, and fire people for faults not of their own…. They do nothing for your child.
N. Universities have said they will not use these scores in evaluating students matriculating into their classes… Meaning that there is absolutely no value in your child taking this test simply to get secret information on your family which can then be sold to anyone willing to pay $79.99 for unlimited number of reports for one year.
O. Your child feels dejected, broken, stupid, and a failure… The joke is if this test never existed, he would see himself as being a good student.
P. Your child will be ruled out of entering certain careers based on results in 1st and 2nd grade…. Imagine you being ruled out of your current profession because of what you did in first grade?
Q. All know that if everyone tells you that college is not in your future, you will never apply hard to make college become part of your future. This test completely segregates blacks and Hispanics out of all good jobs starting in 2023…
R. These test questions are illegible to adults… (have you taken the test?) Adults can’t even figure out what is being asked. Kids just guess. And live by those guesses for the entire rest of their life….
S. Once taken, these test scores can never be erased… except by a mandate ordered by each state’s General Assemblies. However once information has been “leaked out”… it is out there forever…..
T. Killing this test; kills Common Core… Common Core is a whitewash and dulling down of education so all students do poorly in life afterward… Common Core is like a fake religion… All hoopla and promises, but with no God underlying it who can enforce its edits… Common Core is very dangerous to your child.
T. The Smarter Balances Assessment was put in place without parental involvement or concern for children. It is as Communist as anything ever found in Soviet Russia. Children are the wards of the state; parents are simply studs and mares.
U. Common Core and these tests violate parent’s First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution. It never would have happened if parents had been part of its creation, and not an object to be run around in the dark.
V. Common Core is about getting rid of local control and instilling Federal control over your schools’ curriculum.
W. These tests destroy your child’s future….
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Opting out is now a parent’s only option… The Federal Government failed them. The State Government failed them. The local school boards failed them. The Charter School Network failed them. The corporate structure of America, failed them… It is open season on your child…
You can stop it by not letting him take this test… If you don’t opt out, and if you do let them go through with the Smarter Balanced Assessment, your child is now a second class student, behind all those who DID opt out…..
Opting out is supported by all teachers.
Opting out is supported by all principals.
Opting out is supported by all school boards.
Opting out is supported by all childhood psychologists.
Opting out is supported by a majority of our legislators.
Opting out is supported by members of both political parties.
There are bills in every legislature regarding opting out.
Opting out is necessary…
You need to opt out your child if you have not already.
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April 4, 2015 at 9:47 pm
Kevin Ohlandt
Reblogged this on Exceptional Delaware.
April 5, 2015 at 10:43 am
Mike Matthews
Whoa whoa whoa Kavips. The movement is gaining steam and you’ve just about jumped the shark with some of the stuff in this post. Ease down. Some good stuff here, but pedophilia and sexual abuse?!?
April 6, 2015 at 12:34 pm
kavips
Mike. I’ve never cared for what is politically expedient. Obviously it is impossible to link to those sites as proof for obvious reasons. And since every link to there is traced, I would advise no one to EVER go and do so. To verify, your best bet would be to befriend someone in child protective services or the members of the State Police who regularly monitor those sites to determine a). if there is a shark first, and b) if it is being jumped second….
If you can’t do that, you are left with trusting (or not) someone who for the most part has built a legacy upon telling things as they are…
But I can certainly emphasize with your position. There was brief debate on this end whether to include it or not, based on potential reactions such as yours…
But put in terms every parent can understand, if it were possibly true, and if it were then washed over so that harm were to come because it was never brought up in any public forum… that… in my book, would be the irresponsible action to take…
That said, it was only one line out of 23. 🙂
April 6, 2015 at 7:48 pm
Joanne Christian
Well Mike, if you think about it, all data has either eventually or waiting to be used for positive or nefarious gain. Whether it was reporting out gun owners’ permits in New York, HIV status from a Florida hospital, or your book purchases from Amazon, what makes you think it’s that far off–to whatever app? Even before the internet, and pedophilia was not discussed as candidly as it is now, there were networks that provided mapped information of “child-centric” areas and sites, for the vacationing or traveling pedophile. My “other” work in the underbelly of some childrens’ healthcare, oriented me to that 30 years ago. I’m still nauseous. Remember Mike–this is a GREATER network than just your child’s test scores and answers. It will interface with their electronic healthcare records, inclusive of toileting habits, maturation, etc..kavips is not so far off. Overwhelming I know. But it was 3 years ago, when all I wanted was people to listen about the reduced teeth of FERPA, and the cyber tattoo of this kind of state/federal testing. Now they understand the implications of testing, and will be ready for the Aha! moment of “all this information, is not staying in silos”. Yup. The real predator was the federal government, who groomed people into thinking….yes, put all those health records on line! (Allergies and vaccines are fine with me) yes, give me Home Access, and let me see real time my child’s grades and comments, discipline record, etc..(notes home and absences are fine with me) yes, give my child tests that I know where he stands with progress across the nation in his peer group (geez, I kinda liked the impartial TerraNova, NWEA, and Iowa test ubiquitous across most regions–and like shades of blue–different, but same palette and pretty darn reliable.). But hey, they will have it all now from first step, daycare site, reading level,bus stop, and onset of menses. Oh wait, they might discover they are weak in fundamentals of math as an aside.
Sorry, #23 unfortunately has real implication. But we aren’t ready for it yet, so I guess it’s not going to happen.