California school backtracks on Common Core opt-out punishment

Fox News ^ | June 24, 2015 | Perry Chiaramonte

[Olog-hai]

A California high school where a majority of juniors opted out of Common Core testing has backed off of plans to ban the students from using the school’s parking lot and from taking part in senior class activities after parents and education groups raised a fuss.

C.J. Foss, principal of Calabasas High School in Los Angeles County, last week sent an email to seniors-to-be announcing that certain privileges would be withheld from students who skipped the controversial test, which detractors say is an attempt to nationalize America’s public education system. Although the test, which critics say dictates curriculum, is widely known as Common Core, some states have different names for it. In the Golden State, the test is known as the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. […]

Under state law, students are permitted to opt out of the test, prompting the Pacific Justice Institute, an education advocacy group, to charge Foss was punishing students for exercising their rights. …

[mountainbunny]

According to the school system, you have the right to obey and submit.

You have the right to be punished for not exercising your first right.

[outofsalt]

I guess John Boehner could always become a school principal when his gig as Speaker of the GOPe is up.

[Norm Lenhart]

People that send their kids to public school today, when online schools are available to every person in America are guilty of child abuse.

There is NO excuse.

[LearsFool]

the controversial test, which detractors say is an attempt to nationalize America’s public education system

Fox News thinks THAT is the objection to Common Core??? Here's a news flash for them: America's public education system was, for all practical purposes, nationalized a century ago.

The terrible news about Common Core is that it's a method of MIS-education, filling the child's head with junk and hampering his innate ability to learn.