To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Tell Congress: Children Don't Come Standardized
High-stakes, standardized testing is excessive in our schools, and is damaging to the learning process and to our children. We demand that it be safe for any parent and child to opt out of standardized testing.
Why is this important?
It is time for parents to stand up against the unfair forcing of children into high stakes testing situations. Testing is a multi-billion dollar industry. Our government, subject to powerful lobbyists and money, can’t be counted to stop this epidemic.
There is NO evidence that these tests accurately measure a child's knowledge. There are numerous real variables, such as poverty, which
have much higher significance on a child's success rate. High-stakes standardized test are a boondoggle, created to enable cynical developers to privatize our childrens' education-- for profit.
We believe that parents have a constitutional right (under the 14th
Amendment) to protect their child however they feel necessary. To protect our children from the madness of standardized testing, we must be free to exercise our parental rights to opt-out, free of any fears that there could be punishments inflicted on their children, their teachers or their schools.
There is NO evidence that these tests accurately measure a child's knowledge. There are numerous real variables, such as poverty, which
have much higher significance on a child's success rate. High-stakes standardized test are a boondoggle, created to enable cynical developers to privatize our childrens' education-- for profit.
We believe that parents have a constitutional right (under the 14th
Amendment) to protect their child however they feel necessary. To protect our children from the madness of standardized testing, we must be free to exercise our parental rights to opt-out, free of any fears that there could be punishments inflicted on their children, their teachers or their schools.