Opt Out Organizers Urge Parents
To Spurn Common Core Testing
COOPERSTOWN – Seventy-some parents and teachers who are parents were told this afternoon to "opt out" of allowing their children to participate in the state's Common Core testing this spring.
"If you deny them access to the test scores," said Jamie McNair, who with his wife, Jessica, is an organizer of Opt Out NY, "the whole thing falls apart."
The McNairs, both teachers in the New Hartford district, spoke to a full house in the Village Board meeting room at 22 Main for about 90 minutes. Many of the attendees were also at the CCS board meeting Wednesday evening.