“Parents want to be supportive of teachers and what you’re asking is ‘Would you come over and watch our teachers and make sure they’re not cheating?’ They’re not supposed to read a book or do anything but watch a teacher give a test.”
– Eric Doss, director at Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences, explaining the difficulty in recruiting parent volunteers to serve as state-required test monitors. New, specific state guidelines mandating test group sizes for special needs students and English Language Learners has schools scrambling to recruit volunteers for the three and a half-week testing season. (Source)