What if they gave the SBAC and no one took it? Ask the folks at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle
It has been confirmed that 100% of the 11th grade students at Nathan Hale High School opted out of the SBAC test this week.
Here is the history in a nutshell. There were informational meetings about the Common Core Standards and the SBAC early in the school year and Wayne Au, PhD was invited to speak on high stakes testing.
There was much discussion and then a resolution was passed by the teachers at Nathan Hale High School:
The Common Core Standards associated Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exam, the SBAC, will be implemented in March in the Seattle school district but this afternoon the Nathan Hale High School Senate, which functions as the Building Leadership Team typically made up of teachers, parents, staff and students, voted nearly unanimously not to administer the SBAC tests to 11th graders this year.
The Senate also recently voted not to administer the PSAT test to 10th graders at all in the future.
The reasons for refusing the SBAC for 11th graders included:
1. The SBAC is not required for graduation
2. Colleges will not use the SBAC this year
3. Since NCLB requires all students to pass the tests by 2014, and since few if any schools What if they gave the SBAC and no one took it? Ask the folks at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle | Seattle Education: