The Case for Opting Out If testing causes your child undue stress, or your child has an issue such as dyslexia that makes a timed test a living nightmare, then putting your child through testing feels like cold, hard punishment that they don't deserve. My feeling? Opt them out.
It could be as basic as: “I want to let you know we do not want our child, name, to take part in the name the standardized exam this year. Please arrange for him or her to have a productive educational experience during the testing period.”Some states or districts have specific forms.
The opt-out movement began as a call for parents to take back their autonomy as deci- sion-makers for their child's education. Although some of the parents interviewed mentioned the political aspect of the opt-out agenda, none of them cited any of those talking points as their reason for opting out or opting in.
There is no law that allows a parent or student to opt out of state testing, and there is no state test opt-out procedure or form.