{"id":17336,"date":"2014-05-06T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=17336"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:11:39","slug":"teen-suspended-for-refusing-common-core-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/teen-suspended-for-refusing-common-core-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Suspended for Refusing Common Core Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fox News<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Alabama teen says she was suspended from school after refusing to take standardized tests aligned with national Common Core curriculum standards.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa McKinney, an 8th-grade student at\u00a0Whitesburg Middle School in Huntsville, Ala., told WAAY-TV she was given two in-school suspensions after telling school officials that she didn&#8217;t agree with the requirement and that she was opting out.<\/p>\n<p>When she opted out the third day, she was given an out-of-school suspension&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/05\/06\/alabama-teen-suspended-after-opting-out-common-core-testing\/\">Read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent home after she refused three times to submit to the common core-aligned test&#8230; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":17076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[4016,10775,10776,10774],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Standardized-Test.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-4vC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}