Posted on 03/07/2015 8:39:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A Florida parent was forced to take drastic measures when her public school refused to release her child during a dispute over standardized testing.
Jacqui Myers says another mother with a child at Winter Park’s Brookshire Elementary School called her after she arrived at the school to opt her fifth-grade daughter out of standardized testing related to the Common Core national standards initiative.
“They’re not giving me my child, can you help?” the mother told Myers.
Myers, the mother of a first grader, is active in a group working to opt children out of state tests and was at the school counseling parents.
She called 911 to report that the school wouldn’t release the child.
The school told the mother they did not want to release the child because she was in the middle of testing. But when police arrived, the school relented and turned her over.
Myers tells the Orlando Sentinel that emails from school administrators stated that “releasing students during testing would be disruptive and not be allowed.”
But after the incident, a school spokesman denied such a policy existed.
“We do not hold children if parents come to pick them up,” Shari Bobinski says, according to the paper.
The opt out movement has sprouted up across the country in the last year amid concerns the federally funded standardized tests are collecting personal data on students beyond how well they’re reading and writing.
Fox News reported parents sent a letter to then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett with their concerns about the extent of data that could end up in state and federal databases.
“The personally identifiable information includes information on every student’s personality, attitudes, values, beliefs, and disposition, a psychological profile called Interpersonal Skills Standards and anchors,” reads the letter sent to Corbett in December.
“This data has been illegally obtained through deceptive means without the parents’ knowledge or consent through screening, evaluations, testing, and surveys. These illegal methods of information gathering were actually fraudulently called ‘academic standards’ on the [Pennsylvania] Department of Education website portal.”
“This follows them from the cradle to the grave,” Tracy Ramey, of Pennsylvanians against Common Core, told FoxNews.com.
While some states allow opting out of testing, others, like Florida, do not.
To fight back, parents are instructing their children to take the initial step of participating – breaking the seal on a test booklet or logging into the test on a computer – but then refuse to do anything else.
The Ohio legislature passed a bill that bars schools from punishing students who opt out.
Prior to the legislation, state officials and educators said students could face “serious consequences, including third-graders not advancing to fourth grade and high school seniors denied diplomas,” according to WCPO.
Torture
These jerk school administrators should be charged with false imprisonment, kidnapping, and child abuse. Put a few of these pukes in jail for 25 years and maybe the rest will get a clue. Maybe.
It will go on their permanent record
;)
Unlawful imprisonment? Kidnapping? This is yet another reason wh TruTV needs a new show, World’s Dumbest School Administrators. There’s more than enough material out there to keep Danny Bonaduce, Tonya Harding, etc employed for life.
Common Core is going to bury Jeb Bush...
That is a very reasonable and moderate response.
Let’s hope so.
bfl
Home School!......the only answer to Common Core’s Marxist/ Islamic agenda!
These are key details that should be argued effectively against Common Core.
The resistance to common core is growing.
I think what kind of gets me about the original Sentinel article is that the elementary school had a ‘school resource officer’ on campus, who heard the 911 call and went to the office and dealt with the situation. Do elementary schools in Florida require a police officer on campus? Or was that officer assigned because it was testing day and it was anticipated that there would be issues?
Either way, kudos to the parent who refused to take ‘no’ for an answer.
We hate Common Core here in GA but our Governor who is a RINO federal dollar Ho is just dug in on it.
Jeb Bush will bury Jeb Bush. His arrogance will drive away more than just conservatives.
When my son first went to Jr. High, on his first day, he missed his bus home. Called and talked to the assistant principal who told me I was over protective for wanting to know where my son was. Talked to the principal and told him next time I’ll deal with the police vs. his administration. Later found out the fired the assistant principal and he was canned at his next job for “alleged inappropriate behavior with a minor.”
Things like that are why I finally saw the light, with the help of JRandom's consistent posts over the years until it finally got through my head -- the only way to fix this mess is to vote such that RINOs lose and to act in such a way as to deprive them of power EVERY TIME, especially in general elections.
Ten years ago, I'd didn't realize what I realize now: that it is better to either vote third-party or to stay home, than it is to vote for a RINO. The ONLY thing a RINO will do is to make leftism/liberalism more powerful in both parties, and every time I voted for a RINO, though I told myself I was voting "against" the Democrat, in action and truth, the only action I was actually taking was to vote to make liberalism more powerful in both parties regardless of my naïve and wishful intentions to the contrary.
Well our choice last November in GA was Nathan RINO Deal or Jason Carter (Jimmah’s grandson) We just had not choice. Carter would have been a total disaster.
Resisting Communist Core...
It sounds like CPS has a case for taking the kid due to parental negligence. After all, the parents ENROLLED the kid in a PUBLIC SCHOOL, in the first place.
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