Posted on 04/17/2014 2:00:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
On Wednesday Tracy and Mary Finney of Marietta, Georgia were met by a police officer outside their children’s public school and informed they were trespassing on school property because they opposed the school’s process of testing all children.
The Finneys, whose children attend West Side Elementary School, had decided to opt their children out of Georgia’s state test, the CRCT.
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Meg Norris, an organizer of United Opt-Out Georgia, told Breitbart News she is “shocked” at how the mandates to test children are being enforced in Georgia.
“It’s happening in schools all over Georgia,” Norris said. “Even children who are autistic must be tested.”
“Because of federal mandates, they are putting children through this,” she continued. “One child missed the first day of testing and the entire class was refused ice cream, leading to that child being bullied by his classmates.”
Norris explained that this year is the final year Georgia’s CRCT is to be used. Next year, the test is to be replaced by the Common Core-aligned PARCC assessment. “They say the CRCT was aligned with Common Core,” she added, “but I don’t see any evidence of that. As far as I can tell they’re teaching using the Common Core standards, but using the old CRCT to test the children.”
Norris, a former teacher, said she taught the Common Core standards for 18 months and could see what it was doing to her students. She added that Common Core has become a major issue in the elections this year.
“I just won’t vote for any politician who supports the Common Core standards,” she said.
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The same people who bitch about bullying in schools do things that makes the entire class into one big bully over ice cream. This country has lost it’s mind.
Malicious Hairy Parasite...there...fixed it
Thanks, will look at that later when I have more time.
Nancy lives about a mile away, FWVLIW.
I have one, because I needed one and after lots of dough and going through several incompetent, lazy lawyers, I one that was golden. I realize he may be in court or with another client, but at least I can inform him of the situation and wait for him to call or show up.
That is a fact.
So you don’t have to memorize multiplication tables or addition/subtraction? That’s insane.
Thank you.
BOL
A few years ago one of younger relatives while in the 5th grade became the village math dummy.
His parents, both very sharp in math, couldn’t figure out what had happened.
On a suggestion from my wife, they checked with the principal and found out in 5 years of school, their son had been exposed to so called 3 math systems, and the last one was what you showed.
They got him into an after school math class. In two months his math teacher was out getting tests from 2-3 grades ahead of his class as he had aced all of the tests for his class. That year he was asked to join in the math Olympics.
Since then he has gotten straight A’ in math and has been performing at least two years ahead in math.
Later, his two year older sister told her parents that the so called math expert teacher at that school was her home room teacher that year. Often, when this girl went in early to her home room to study, her teacher would be crying. The teacher was not able to spot the pattern or trend to explain how to get the answer. This girl would then teach the teacher how to see, explain and use the pattern.
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