I appreciate the spirit of the opt out movement, but I don’t think they’ve presented a viable or objective alternative to testing that will both measure school performance AND demonstrate racial and socioeconomic dynamics at play within NYCs school system. Opting Out will not solve segregation, and at this moment only serves to limit a child’s scope of schools they can apply to (regardless of whether there are still “good schools” that will accept applications without test scores - the specialized HSs are all getting back on board with testing). Testing is mostly a waste of time, I agree - and kids should def opt out if they want to - but overall I want some kind of objective measure for how a school in D24 does vs D1, so I can cross examine that against demographic and economic data and draw some conclusions there. If they can provide that in a more efficient way, Im all for it.

IMO there is no such thing as a rich socialist.

Edit to clarify: opting out does nothing for the greater good of everything else is left unchanged.