Baltimore County Coalition for Education Oversight: MSDE policy on MSA opt out: Letter from Maryland State Department of Education to local school systems regarding MSA (State standardized test) opt out: Excerpt from Accommodations Manual: Students may be excused only...
Or, students can sit in the testing room and stare at the walls for the 8-10 hours of testing without opening their test booklets, OR they can be strategically "tardy" and miss testing a la this article: http://www.examiner.com/article/parents-can-opt-out-of-maryland-standardized-assessments
ReplyDeleteOr sensible administrators can offer the test, when refused by the student count it as having been "administered," and let the child read or otherwise constructively occupy his/her time, which doesn't seem to be happening in MCPS (thanks, Testing Office, for taking the hardest-line definition of "administer" you possibly could have - but please feel free to soften your stance, especially given Dr. Starr's public resistance to the MSA's, before my kids have to stare at walls for hours on end over 4 days starting tomorrow.).
Seen this one yet? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/03/standardized_testing_i_opted_my_kids_out_the_schools_freaked_out_now_i_know.html
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