Students must ‘sit and stare’ if they opt out of Common Core

You must "Sit and stare."

• New York administrators and teachers seek revenge on students if they dare opt out of the Socialistic Common Core program.

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.

13WHAM.com reports at least 16 school districts in the Empire State have implemented a “sit and stare” policy for students who’ve been opted-out of the state assessments by their parents.

Such students “will 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,” the news site reports says EAG News.

It’s not difficult to read between the lines here. The “sit and stare” 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.

The parents are making the school leaders’ lives more difficult, so they’re going to return the favor – by making the children pay.

That’s not just our interpretation of what’s happening; the leader of the state’s largest teachers union sees it the same way.

“This (‘sit and stare’) policy aimed at students whose parents elect to ‘opt out’ their children from state standardized testing is unconscionable,” said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the New York State United Teachers, in a February press release.

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Democrat or Republican, it just not matter as both Socialist parties grow a massive, unconstitutional and centralized "education" system where the Feds dictate what children will be allowed to learn.
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The "small government" GOP Congress under Bush accelerated the Federal education takeover with No Child Left Behind, but it continues under Common Core.