Ingraham High School staff object to the SBAC | Seattle Education

Ingraham High School staff object to the SBAC | Seattle Education:

Ingraham High School staff object to the SBAC

By a vote of 48 to 1, Ingraham staff passed the following resolution:

A RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL OF THE Ingraham High School

WHEREAS Ingraham High School strives to provide an excellent education

to every student;

WHEREAS the Smarter Balanced Assessment is not required for graduation;

WHEREAS this computer-based assessment will take approximately eight

hours for each 11th grader to complete and its confusing format is

unlike anything students will experience outside the testing

environment;

WHEREAS there are not enough computers to test the students in a

reasonable amount of time and it is unacceptable for computers to be

unavailable to non-testing students for such a long period of time;

WHEREAS the failure rate of the assessment is going to be

extraordinarily high (possibly 60%) for the general population and

even higher for students of color, ELL students, and students on

individualized education plans;

WHEREAS student performance on this test will in no way be indicative

of their learning and instead this test must be given to meet

arbitrary, antiquated and poorly considered state and federal

mandates;

WHEREAS graduation and standardized testing requirements in Washington

State are confusing and poorly communicated;

WHEREAS the sheer number of state-mandated standardized tests is unacceptable;

WHEREAS in addition to other assessments during the last seven weeks

of school, we must administer one month of International Baccalaureate

exams, several weeks of AP testing, many weeks of 11th grade SBAIngraham High School staff object to the SBAC | Seattle Education: