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PLEASE INVITE and SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS!
Let’s meet in the LOBBY of the Legislative Office Building at 9:00 am on Thursday, March 5th.
NH Commissioner of Education Virginia Barry is using Technical Advisories to intimidate parents. Barry believes her directives SUPERSEDE a parent’s fundamental RIGHT to direct the education of his child!!!
House Education Committee votes on House Bill 603, protecting a parent’s right to REFUSE to allow their child take the Smarter Balanced Assessments without penalty, at 9:45 am March 5, 2015 in the Legislative Office Building, Room 207.
Please email the House Education Committee: HouseEducationCommittee@leg.state.nh.us and tell them to PASS HB 603 to respect parents right to REFUSE.
Why should parents be forced to allow their children take an assessment that is SHROUDED in SECRECY. Parents should be able to REVIEW and INSPECT copies of previous assessments from 2013 or 2014. Yet parents are not allowed to do so.
Many are concerned about the dispositional questions, measuring student values, attitudes and beliefs, that are on the Smarter Balanced Assessments.
Others have PRIVACY concerns with the U.S. Department of Education receiving “student level” information from these assessments.
Regardless of the reason, parents have the RIGHT to REFUSE!!!
