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Milford parents were told kids cannot opt out of test. Trumbull Postpone test because kids opted out of test.

Only 26 of Trumbull High School’s 530 juniors showed up to take last Friday’s Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test of a test.  Earlier in the week, only 47 (less than 10 percent) of the town’s high school juniors participated in that day’s portion of the test.

In response, Trumbull has postponed this week’s Common Core testing for juniors.

This comes despite repeated claims by the Malloy administration and its apologists that the implementation of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test of a test is going well.

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The truth is the attempt to force students to take the inappropriate Common Core test is an unmitigated disaster, especially when it comes to high school juniors.

The magnitude of the growing problems were laid out last week in a Wait, What? article entitled, “Opt out movement grows amid Common Core testing disasters.”

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Despite the Malloy administration’s misguided program to intimidate parents into thinking that they do not have the right to opt their children out of the inappropriate Common Core Test of a test, towns across Connecticut are reporting that many parents aren’t being so easily intimidated.

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