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We call on school committee members, school administrators, the Board of Education (BoE) and the Governor to join us and require the NH DoE immediately stop intimidating school administrators with the inexcusable action of pressuring school administrators to deny parents their fundamental rights.
School Administrators and teachers should never be pitted against parents in their own district and this is what is happening throughout New Hampshire. The NH DOE's position on this issue is concerning.
Our reasons for refusing the test on behalf of our children are based on informed and well-founded concerns with over-testing in our schools, use of new, unproven tests (SBAC), immense instructional time lost to test prep, data collection, excessive technological requirements for testing, developmentally inappropriate test questions, increases in test anxiety of children and implying the worth of our teachers can be boiled down to one test score.
We believe this petition is necessary based on the actions recently taken by NH DoE pressuring school administrators with technical advisories that do not inform administrators of a parent's right to refuse. We are extremely dissatisfied with the current leadership of DoE, including Virginia Barry. Our children are minors and we are their parents. We regret that NH DoE has made this critical error in judgment and has decided to become an adversary of parents instead of working together. We will not back down from this position.
We demand DoE publicly acknowledge parents’ rights to refuse the test for their child and not place parents against their school administrators when we refuse.
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March 13, 2015
The momentum behind this petition proves that parents are finished playing games with the Department of Education. NH DoE officials think they can ignore us but this pressure is building into a wall they cannot climb over.
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Please preserve our rights as parents to have a say in the education of our children!
I am exercising my constitutional right. And since Article 6 (the supremacy clause) to the US Costitution puts the 14th amendment above any state law. In the case of Troxel v. Granville, the United States Supreme Court stated that "the interest of parents in the care, custody and control of their children--is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court... "Choices [parents make] about the upbringing of children... are among associational rights... sheltered by the Fourteenth Amendment against the State's unwarranted usurpation, disregard, or disrespec"
NHDOE, you should be charged with a number of things; the first of which is VIOLATING our 14th Amendment Fundamental Parental Rights.
I refuse any and all of these tests for my child and anything related to common core!!
My daughter went from being gifted to a big fat F in math! The kids struggling are now on te honor roll ? Its dumbing down the masses. Your taking our best creative achievers & making them simple bee workers . America's future will be very bleak.
My children belong to me, NOT the state! Parental rights matter!
Our kids deserve better! Stop Common Core!
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
We call on school committee members, school administrators, the Board of Education (BoE) and the Governor to join us and require the NH DoE immediately stop intimidating school administrators with the inexcusable action of pressuring school administrators to deny parents their fundamental rights.
School Administrators and teachers should never be pitted against parents in their own district and this is what is happening throughout New Hampshire. The NH DOE's position on this issue is concerning.
Our reasons for refusing the test on behalf of our children are based on informed and well-founded concerns with over-testing in our schools, use of new, unproven tests (SBAC), immense instructional time lost to test prep, data collection, excessive technological requirements for testing, developmentally inappropriate test questions, increases in test anxiety of children and implying the worth of our teachers can be boiled down to one test score.
We believe this petition is necessary based on the actions recently taken by NH DoE pressuring school administrators with technical advisories that do not inform administrators of a parent's right to refuse. We are extremely dissatisfied with the current leadership of DoE, including Virginia Barry. Our children are minors and we are their parents. We regret that NH DoE has made this critical error in judgment and has decided to become an adversary of parents instead of working together. We will not back down from this position.
We demand DoE publicly acknowledge parents’ rights to refuse the test for their child and not place parents against their school administrators when we refuse.
Updates
March 13, 2015
The momentum behind this petition proves that parents are finished playing games with the Department of Education. NH DoE officials think they can ignore us but this pressure is building into a wall they cannot climb over.
16 Comments
Stop using our kids as data points for your pointless experiments. I am the parent here and I say NO to these tests. Keep your hands off my childs education.
Please preserve our rights as parents to have a say in the education of our children!
I am exercising my constitutional right. And since Article 6 (the supremacy clause) to the US Costitution puts the 14th amendment above any state law. In the case of Troxel v. Granville, the United States Supreme Court stated that "the interest of parents in the care, custody and control of their children--is perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court... "Choices [parents make] about the upbringing of children... are among associational rights... sheltered by the Fourteenth Amendment against the State's unwarranted usurpation, disregard, or disrespec"
NHDOE, you should be charged with a number of things; the first of which is VIOLATING our 14th Amendment Fundamental Parental Rights.
I refuse any and all of these tests for my child and anything related to common core!!
My daughter went from being gifted to a big fat F in math! The kids struggling are now on te honor roll ? Its dumbing down the masses. Your taking our best creative achievers & making them simple bee workers . America's future will be very bleak.
My children belong to me, NOT the state! Parental rights matter!
Our kids deserve better! Stop Common Core!
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Stop using our kids as data points for your pointless experiments. I am the parent here and I say NO to these tests. Keep your hands off my childs education.