Calling high-stakes testing helpful to children is like calling airline food "bistro service." Humor columnist Dave Barry provides the link from bistro service to high-stakes testing when he observes that the motto of the airline marketing people is, "When life hands you lemons, lie."

I strongly believe that if we don't resist the growing and incessant calls for high-stakes testing, we are part of the problem. I published an Honor Roll of Resistance in Phi Delta Kappan in January (http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/koha0101.htm). I'm happy to report it's already time to offer an update.

• Donald Perl, a middle school language arts teacher, told a packed news conference this January that he was refusing to administer the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP). Of the 33,000 members of the Colorado Teachers Association, Perl, a 20-year veteran teacher, is the first to refuse to give the CSA

On Jan. 25, Perl gave his principal three weeks notice to find someone else to administer the tests. He was suspended without pay for the six days his students took the test. He insists this loss of pay is not too high a price to pay for professional honor. "Somebody had to stand up and say this is wrong," he said.

• Bruce Degi, an English teacher at Cherry Creek High School in Denver, resigned rather than give the CSAP.