A Seattle science teacher has been suspended without pay for refusing to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to his sixth-graders.
“I did it because I think it’s bad for kids,” Carl Chew told the Seattle Times. The 60-year old teacher said he wanted to take a stand against a test he considers harmful to students, teachers, schools and families and understood he faced consequences up to and including firing. “When you do an act of civil disobedience, you gracefully accept what happens to you,” he said.
More from Mr. Chew himself right here.
