GREENACRES, Fla. – Administrators at a Florida middle school report they’re spending more than half the school year on state standardized tests and district exams.

Officials at Okeeheelee Middle School report that students spent a total of 91 days of the district’s 180-day school year testing students on required exams in 2014-15, and allege the move toward computerized tests will only make matters worse, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

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“We’re spending so much time testing (students), I can’t even teach them stuff to get tested on,” Okeeheelee principal David Samore told the news site. “It’s wrong.”

The Okeeheelee staff doesn’t track how many days individual students spend on state and district tests. The 91 day count reflects the number of full or half days students spent taking tests in general, but different students take different tests based on a variety of factors, such as the classes they’re taking and their learning ability.

School officials have spent the last three years tracking test taking with a large magnetic board that plots out the days students spend in testing.

“The months of October, January, February, April and May are almost entirely filled, cluttered with little magnetic strips bearing the subject tested,” according to the Sun-Sentinel.

“In middle school you have to test every child,” Jeff Shocket, Okeeheelee’s testing monitor, told the site.

Beyond the obvious impact the steady testing imposes on learning time, there’s been other ramifications.

A Sun-Sentinel report last week points out that one in four Palm Beach County schools shut down library services to make time and room for testing last year. Tradewinds Middle School in Greenacres closed its doors for 125 days last school year to accommodate test takers, and Spanish River High in Boca Raton shut down the library for 98.5 days, according to the site.

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“It’s happening more and more as we start to worry more about testing … and less about the function of the media center,” district library services manager Bill Purtell said.

Librarians told the Sun-Sentinel that when the libraries are closed students cannot check out books or use other services, which is undoubtedly eroding their research skills and literacy.

Florida isn’t the only state with testing troubles, however.

Parents in Delaware led an effort to ensure they can opt their children out of state standardized tests, and lawmakers in both chambers approved the idea late last month, according to Delaware Online.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown also approved legislation last month requiring school districts to notify parents twice yearly of their right to opt their children out of standardized tests, Education Week reports.

Colorado mother Ilana Spiegel told International Business Times she decided against sending her children to school on annual exam day because she believes the tests are unnecessary and “immoral.”

“I wrote a letter just saying they’re not going to participate,” she said. “The laws are immoral and (unjust) and are hurting kids. People aren’t listening to parents and educators and students … this was the only thing to do.”

Many parents agree, and they’re joining a growing movement that speaking out against standardized tests – the Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams in particular.

According to IBT:

About 10 states have introduced opt-out legislation in the last year, said Monty Neill, the executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a nonprofit organization in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts, that works against flawed standardized testing practices. Among them were Maine, Wisconsin, Illinois, New Jersey, Delaware, Colorado, Arizona and Ohio. 

“Winning these kinds of things is often a multiyear effort,” Neill said. “Everywhere we turn around, it’s growing.”

Legislation codifying parents’ right to opt their children out of standardized tests in Arizona, Illinois, New Hampshire, and Maine were ultimately vetoed or voted down.