Kudos to New York City Council Education Committee Chair Daniel Dromm for standing up for the right of parents to opt their children out of the harmful state tests (Queens Tribune, “Dromm Joins Parents in ‘Opt Out’ Movement,” 4/7).
Opponents of opting-out are not telling the whole story. Rev. Al Sharpton, for instance, says that opt-out began as a controversy raised by some upstate. But great African-American scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Horace Mann Bond decades ago exposed the eugenic roots of standardized tests, which were designed to label racial and ethnic minority students as intellectually inferior.
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