Who owns your kids – you or the Education system? I’ve blogged about this more and more, it seems, as more stuff keeps popping up. This latest one surrounds what Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education said upon the news that up to 184,000 kids in New York will not be taking the standardized tests mandated by Government for school kids to take under the No Child Left Behind Act (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Under No Child Left Behind, at least 95 percent of students in a state must take annual standardized tests in reading and math from grades 3-8. Until now, the federal government has never had to contemplate enforcing that regulation, but a growing parent-led boycott effort is changing things. Now, in many states, thousands of parents who oppose new Common Core-aligned tests or simply oppose testing in general are yanking their children out of exams. In New York, activists claim over 175,000 students are refusing to take the state’s new standardized English tests, a figure that would put the state on pace to miss the 95 percent threshold.
Gosh – there seems to be a civil rights movement growing against the Federal Government’s efforts to take over from local education, doesn’t it? And certainly here in NH, the Department of Education collectivists are showing their bootlicking tendencies in showing that what ever Washington orders, they will comply because MONEY! And, truth be told, ideology – that Government SHOULD be in control and the Freedom to choose by parents must be verboten.
As for Duncan, what was his threat against this rebel rabble? Well, government MUST step in against the parents:
