Texas Parents' Educational Rights Forum

Around this time of year we hear sometimes apocryphal and sometimes real stories of schools threatening to refer a parent to CPS if they opt out. This is a hollow threat and should not be given any credence. A number of years ago we raised this directly with CPS and received confirmation that they d...

KLHoward wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:02 pm 7th Grade
TX Online Prepatory School

1st yr to opt out

Let us know how your school responds. Many of these online charters are difficult to deal with,

Ask them to provide you the authority for " the student has to make a good faith attempt on each staar EOC by actually answering the questions" because that is precisely the opposite of how the TEA treats refusals. Under the TEA guidelines, the school is required to score every assessment ...

First and foremost, I would be very up front with them. Definitely follow up at the end of the year and then also before the new year starts. Make sure you specifically tell them that you do not want him in any STAAR prep classes.

OK, so your situation is your child took the 6th grade assessments and barely failed. This puts you in a slightly different situation than a parent whose kid passed them. The school is required by law to provide accelerated instruction and it does fall under the compulsory attendance law. What the l...

Last question: what grade is he is?

Diane,

My post above directly addresses their improper reliance on a law that has not been enacted yet. Have you submitted the scores and gotten this as a response or just asked about it?

What electives does he have and what electives did he lose?

So a few questions

Did your kid take STAAR last year? If so how did he do?

Have they stated why he is in the class and why they can’t remove him?

What grade is he in?

Are the classes on his schedule as full class periods?

I have a 10th grader who took the TSI exam last year and passed. Last year he took English EOC when he was supposed to been exempt. Last week I sent email to his counselor requesting they update his record to reflect his TSI scores so that he could use it for substitution against English II EOC thi...