They apparently wanted to give this parent a hard time for daring to question Common Core.
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A Florida parent was forced to take drastic measures when her public school refused to release her child during a dispute over standardized testing.
Jacqui Myers says another mother with a child at Winter Park’s Brookshire Elementary School called her after she arrived at the school to opt her fifth-grade daughter out of standardized testing related to the Common Core national standards initiative.
“They’re not giving me my child, can you help?” the mother told Myers.
Myers, the mother of a first grader, is active in a group working to opt children out of state tests and was at the school counseling parents.
She called 911 to report that the school wouldn’t release the child.
The school told the mother they did not want to release the child because she was in the middle of testing. But when police arrived, the school relented and turned her over.