Now teachers are opting out of Common Core.
Prospect Heights International HS teachers in Brooklyn are refusing to administer an English Language Arts test Thursday because they believe it is useless to their non-native-English-speaking students.
The test, which is tied to new teacher evaluations, is given at the start of the school year and near the end to measure student performance.
But Prospect Heights teachers, whose school is largely filled with immigrants who have yet to master English, said nearly all of their students scored zeros on the fall exam.
“I had students tell me they felt like they were failures. I had students cry during the exam,” said ninth-grade English teacher Emily Wendlake.
Twenty-six of the school’s 30 teachers sent a letter to Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña urging her to drop the test for the city’s immigrant students still learning English.
School leaders said they will still administer the test.