Parents joining Seattle teachers' test boycott as principals give exam

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Source: Seattle Times

Under orders from Seattle Superintendent José Banda, the principal and assistant principals at Garfield High have started giving the district-required tests that Garfield teachers have been boycotting for nearly a month.

The move came after talks between Banda and the teachers ended in deadlock Monday, with teachers vowing to continue their protest of exams known as the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), and Banda telling Garfield’s principal to administer the tests without teachers’ help.

... Many Garfield parents and students support the boycott, and the school’s PTSA organized a campaign to notify parents of their right to exempt their students from the tests.

On Tuesday, only 97 of the roughly 400 ninth-graders who were supposed to take the MAP reading test did so, said Garfield Principal Ted Howard. The other 300, he said, had their parents’ permission to be excused.

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1. Good on Garfield parents!

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2. The Parents are Awesome Only 97 of 400 9th-graders took the test - rest exempted at parent's request

On Tuesday, only 97 of the roughly 400 ninth-graders who were supposed to take the MAP reading test did so, said Garfield Principal Ted Howard. The other 300, he said, had their parents’ permission to be excused.

Good for those parents supporting the actual educators in the classroom.

These test have become so pervasive and frequent it's shameful. They're just another thing the politicians have imposed on students that brings big revenue to their friends and contributors in the test writing and scoring business. I'm sure those same people are also producing study guides and teacher's guides for how to pass the tests too.