Since my 5th-grader said she had a meeting last week with the principal about her letter and I only heard about it from my kid (and nothing from the school), I asked the principal and another teacher who'd been at the meeting for their own impressions, and they invited me to a meeting this morning. The letter below is coming with me (with the names and date filled in, of course ;-)). We shall see.....
To Whom It May Concern:
We would like our daughter [5th-grader] to NOT participate in the practice MSA's to be held the morning of January XX, 2013, nor in any makeup of that same test. We plan to keep her at home that morning so the school does not need to find her an alternate activity during the testing, and furthermore we will be happy to take the initiative to engage her in other appropriate educational activities during that period of time.
Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. [Blogger]
Well....... we shall see.....
[Update: since we're planning to keep her home that morning, the school isn't obligated to either test her or provide an alternate activity for her to do in school as they would for, say, kids who don't celebrate Halloween to do during the schoolwide Halloween celebration. So I've basically made it easy for them to acquiesce. :-) That really was the idea, as opposed to putting them in an awkward spot, as individual schools are already kind of between a rock and a hard place when it comes to these tests. Before the principal realized that I was planning to keep my Bookworm home (for the purpose of making it easier on the school :-)), the principal was worried about how it would be handled and was planning to contact the countywide test coordinator - which is of course totally appropriate, and I would have happily worked at that level to handle it too had it been necessary.
So yay, we got that round. :-)]
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Yay! :)
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