Parents Tell Why They Opted Out

Parents Tell Why They Opted Out

Opposition to Common Core has been simmering for the past year in Central, but it came to a head over the past week, when 153 students chose to opt out of PARCC tests, which are administered as part of Common Core. Three prominent Central citizens were among parents who spoke out — Central Mayor Pro-Tem Dr. Kim Fralick, City Councilman Shane Evans, and Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor, Dr. Jeff Meyers.
Dr. Fralick has been careful not to criticize the Central school system. “I love our schools and administrators. They are caught in the middle,” she said.  Instead, she has focused on the Obama administration and the State Department of Education.
She said “Common Core is about the federal takeover of education.  It is promoted as providing higher standards, but their guidelines have never been tested.  Our students are guinea pigs for an untested system.  PARCC is promoted as a way to compare our students, but onlynine states are using PARCC, and the test in Louisiana is a different test, a PARCC-like test but not the same test.  You won’t be able to use it to compare us with others.  In any case, we already have the ACT test to compare us to others.” Fralick said, “The tests are on average two years ahead of grade level and are setting us up for failure.  The ‘solution’ will be a national curriculum imposed on us all.” Dr. Meyers was interviewed on WAFB-TV about his opposition to PARCC. Evans has been critical of PARCC on Facebook.

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