<div dir="ltr">Awesome Britt! <div>For any parents that are anxious about the impact of opting-out for the children's middle school acceptance, my daughter Luna opted out of all grade 3-5 testing and was accepted at East Side and Tompkins MS.</div><div><br></div><div>Irene (mother of Lukas in Desmond and Hannah)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Britt Hamre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brittkhamre@gmail.com" target="_blank">brittkhamre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dear Families,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">As Dyanthe mentioned earlier this morning, the testing season is upon us once again. I thought I would share my </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/06/opting-haven-out-of-the-state-mandated-tests-is-our-familys-act-of-civil-disobedience/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">op-ed</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> published in the Washington Post last year. In the past year, as I learn more about the business of testing, my commitments have solidified regarding taking a stand against these standardized evaluations. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Best, Britt Hamre (mom to Haven-4th grade, now with Desmond and Hannah)</span></p><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span></div>
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