{"id":265,"date":"2014-04-14T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=265"},"modified":"2014-04-15T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:43:04","slug":"opting-out-why-ian-will-never-take-state-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/04\/14\/opting-out-why-ian-will-never-take-state-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Opting Out Why Ian Will Never Take State Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulinehawkins.com\/2014\/03\/09\/opting-out-why-ian-will-never-take-state-tests\/comment-page-1\/#comment-667\">From a Teacher&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Opting Ian out of these state tests will help Ian become a healthier, more confident student\u2013I am certain of that. If I allowed Ian to follow the same path of so many children before him, children who learned differently\u00a0but were told they didn\u2019t measure up to the state\u2019s expectations of them, I\u2019m afraid the beautiful light in his eyes will fade until he becomes one of my sad juniors who cannot engage with their education anymore, or one of my repeating seniors who will eventually drop out of school because school did not meet their needs. Ian will not become another dismal statistic\u2013not on my watch.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulinehawkins.com\/2014\/03\/09\/opting-out-why-ian-will-never-take-state-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/paulinehawkins.com\/2014\/03\/09\/opting-out-why-ian-will-never-take-state-tests\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Teacher&#8230; &#8220;Opting Ian out of these state tests will help Ian become a healthier, more confident student\u2013I am certain of that. If I allowed Ian to follow the same path of so many children before him, children who learned differently\u00a0but were told they didn\u2019t measure up to the state\u2019s expectations of them, I\u2019m [&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":[38,36,37],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opt-out","category-testing","tag-common-core","tag-opt-out-2","tag-testing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}