{"id":145,"date":"2014-04-02T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:05:12","slug":"children-being-punished-for-opting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/04\/02\/children-being-punished-for-opting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Being Punished for Opting Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARION, N.Y. \u2013 The controversy surrounding the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests is causing some New York school leaders to act as childish and immature as the students they are supposed to be leading.<\/p>\n<p>bored student13WHAM.com reports at least 16 school districts in the Empire State have implemented a \u201csit and stare\u201d policy for students who\u2019ve been opted-out of the state assessments by their parents.<\/p>\n<p>These students \u201cwill have to sit at their desks without any other reading or testing materials, while all the students around them take the 60- to 90-minute exams,\u201d the news site reports.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not difficult to read between the lines here. The \u201csit and stare\u201d policy is a way petty and vindictive school principals and superintendents can get back at parents who are pushing back against the Common Core experiment.<\/p>\n<p>The parents are making the school leaders\u2019 lives more difficult, so they\u2019re going to return the favor \u2013 by making the children pay.<\/p>\n<p>Read more&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/eagnews.org\/outrage-students-who-are-opted-out-of-common-core-testing-will-have-to-sit-and-stare\/\">Outrage: Students who are opted out of Common Core testing will have to \u2018sit and stare\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARION, N.Y. \u2013 The controversy surrounding the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests is causing some New York school leaders to act as childish and immature as the students they are supposed to be leading. bored student13WHAM.com reports at least 16 school districts in the Empire State have implemented a \u201csit and stare\u201d policy for students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opt-out","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}