Holt Think: Ed, Creativity, Tech, Administration. Does Opting Out Help or Hurt? Opinion There seems to be a growing movement among parents, led by folks such as Diane Ravitch to encourage or to actually remove their students from taking state standardized tests. Parents such as LA Times journalist Karin Klien pulled her daughter out of testing after realizing that they do not actually help the learning process: "As a journalist, reviewing an early state test that had been leaked to the paper by a teacher, I saw how thin and fault-riddled it could be. I really have no argument here. National organizations such as Fair Test have sprung up challenging the notion that student have to take “the test.” I get it. Some people are choosing to opt out their children because they don’t see an academic benefit, like Klien. Some are opting out their children because they see the stress on their children. But I can’t help but wonder if these parent opting out their kids actually help their cause any?
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