After a school board meeting on Thursday evening, Vermilion Parish joined a list of Acadiana school districts that passed a resolution speaking out against PARCC testing.Vermilion Parish School Board Superintendent Jerome Puyau describes PARCC testing in one word: a train wreck. The resolution passed by the school board on Thursday might help clear up confusion around PARCC testing. It requests a meeting with BESE addressing people’s concerns about PARCC and at least two years to adjust to the testing without accountability.Denise Frederick has over thirty years of experience teaching in Vermilion Parish and says educators were misled about common core. She’s seen several curriculums but has never seen so many students suffer from anxiety.She says, “Students throwing up in my classroom. headaches, stomach aches, not wanting to come to school. the thing that hurts my heart the most is their appalling simple lack of joy for learning.”Loveless Decquir is a senior and top 25 student at Abbeville high school.  He says he struggles to help his eighth grade brother with homework.Decquir says, “I sit there looking at the page longer than it takes me to do my senior work. it’s very very difficult for the younger kids to get their homework done it’s not that the teachers aren’t doing their job, it’s that the work load is so heavy and strenuous on them.”And Dequir echoes the plea of Superintendent Puyau and those who attended Thursdays school board meeting: Give us time.Parents can sign a permission slip to opt their children out of testing. Students won’t be penalized but school districts could take a hit.On February 26th at 6 p.m., The Vermilion Parish Town Hall concerned parents about PARCC testing will hold a meeting. They’ll be discussing opting out opportunity and problems with PARCC testing.