This is the third of a four-part conversation on the opt-out movement. Marika Heughins One evening my daughter, then a junior in high school, came home and asked us to write a letter to the superintendent to grant her permission to opt out of taking the Smarter Balanced Field Test. We refused to do this, and my daughter responded with indignation. Everyone else was opting out; why should she have to take this test? She had done well on other standardized tests and was an A student.
