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Amid continued opposition to the Common Core education program from Gov. Bobby Jindal, some teachers and also parents, the first round of student testing related to it is now complete.


And some students say they don’t understand what the fuss is about.

“I didn’t find it was all that different from iLEAP and LEAP,” said Armani Pink, an eighth grader who had just finished her fourth day of testing at Houma Junior High School. “I mean, there were, of course, some hard questions but that comes with every test.”

LEAP and iLEAP are the traditional competency tests administered to Louisiana students.


The first half of standardized testing related to Common Core standards, administered by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, tested students in third through eighth grades on English-Language Arts and Mathematics last week.

PARCC is a consortium of 45 states that have adopted the Common Core Standards.

Those standards are educational goals in English and Mathematics that the program says all students should meet in order to succeed in their careers.


PARCC testing was done over five days in increments of about an hour to 90 minutes each day depending on the subject and the grade level, said Dr. Myra Austin, assessment and accountability administrator for Terrebonne Parish School District.

“The only thing different about it was that it was stretched out instead of all in one day,” said Jade Bourdier, an eighth grader at Houma Junior High. “So, I don’t really understand why people were freaking out about it.”