Educators Keeping Their Kids Home During State Tests
Former Bergen school administrator says enough is enough with standardized tests.
As hundreds of thousands of New Jersey schoolchildren sit down for state testing over the course of the next month, NJ Spotlight came upon at least three families who are sitting this one out. Particularly notable: They are teachers and administrators themselves, past and present. And each said that's part of the reason they've decided to opt out their kids, having seen how pervasive testing has become in schools where they’ve worked. “Educators have to be first with this,” said Maryann Reilly, a Ringwood mother, education consultant, former school administrator in Newark, Hackensack , and most recently assistant superintendent in Morristown. “If people on the inside aren’t doing this, how can we expect our neighbors to,” she said. In her …
Andy Schmidt
9:33 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
You get your wish. There is only 3 more years of NJ Ask (state testing) left. After that ALL states will be using a nationally standardized test and all schools are already working to adjust curricula to the national "Core Standard". more ›