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Let it be noted that not one person present at the January 13th meeting jumped to his/her feet to shout that PARCC was the best thing since sliced bread. There is a grass roots movement around the country - from parents, teachers, and administrators - that these tests are toxic. Most of the online examples - even for third grade - are unanswerable.The tests will be scored by any college graduate recruited on Craigslist. No experience necessary. In anything! All the joy has gone out of the classroom experience; students spend their days and weeks working on pre-printed workbooks (with Pearson company's pre-printed answers) . It is lock-step learning; what is taught here is replicated - to the page - in cities across American which use Common Core. It is a disgrace.