Robby Soave:
An Ohio school district told a worried parent that she wasn’t allowed to opt-out of Common Core testing for her kids–and then it forced the kids to be weighed and measured as part of body mass index testing.
The angry mother, Sarah Lewis, said her request to opt her kids out of any school-sponsored Common Core testing was vigorously rejected by Celina City Schools Superintendent Jesse Steiner, according to The Heartland Institute.
“[O]n the recommendation of legal counsel, I am rejecting your request for your child to ‘Opt Out’ of any and all testing,” wrote Steiner in an email to Lewis. “Your child will be expected to follow the same educational procedures as the rest of the student body.”
Lewis opposes implementation of the Common Core standards, a controversial set of curriculum guidelines and standardized testing currently being implemented in most states.
She also didn’t want her two children to take part in health fitness tests, believing that that information should remain private.
On Steiner’s orders, Lewis’s children were pulled out of class so that school officials could belatedly administer the BMI testing.
“They were singled out and weighed and measured,” said Lewis. “They were humiliated.”
Lewis said her nine-year-old daughter had taken the BMI test the year before, and had been told that she was overweight.
“This is a nine-year-old girl that is already uncomfortable with her body as it starts to change and you hand her a paper that says ‘you need to exercise more’ while you serve hot dogs in the school cafeteria—are you kidding me?” said Lewis.
She wanted to spare her daughter such embarrassment this year, but the district told her she had no choice.
Lewis believes her opposition to Common Core made her children political targets.
Have you ever read the “new” books for the governments’ core? What was history has been changed. Similar to Clinton wiping his useless library clean for his homosexual wife’s alleged run in 2016. The fbi burnt Cronkite’s library, so it is just a matter of time when the neo-Nazi’s of the obama administration hits the nations libraries and burn all the books. E books are easily altered, printed books last a long time.
Private and home schooling has doubled in ohio. Celina, ohio is not a bustling city.