I hope you all had a nice spring break. It is time to do the right thing for our students. It is time to think: Is PARCC worth the pain and anxiety that all of you have discussed when dismantling the Accelerated &Enriched math program?
The Network for Public Education is now calling for a national opt out. Please read that again, national. There are school districts in Mercer and Middlesex that have already sent letters to state Department of Education that there will be no PARCC test in their school districts. These districts have even gone one step further and asked the NJDOE for reimbursement of the money that they spent on implementing PARCC. These districts believe that teachers are supposed to teach a curriculum and not “teach to the test.” These districts believe that their students do matter.
When will WW-P join them and prove that this is a Blue Ribbon school district that also believes that students do matter? When will WW-P send a message to their teachers and let them know that WW-P wants them back in the classrooms to teach a curriculum and not to the test?
Do not tell me that WW-P cannot do it! WW-P can do it. It is a matter of the administration and the Board of Education listening to the parents and working with the parents. Unfortunately this has not happened since September, 2015, and only you can change that.
Veronica Mehno
West Windsor
