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College Board Cancels Seattle SAT for Second Time in Two Weeks | deutsch29

College Board Cancels Seattle SAT for Second Time in Two Weeks | deutsch29

College Board Cancels Seattle SAT for Second Time in Two Weeks

The College Board is a bumbling operation.
According to the College Board’s “SAT Test Closings” web page, the August 24, 2019, SAT administration was canceled at Franklin High School in Seattle and was supposed to be “made up” on Saturday, September 07, 2019.
On the same page, the College Board states, “Test center closings for the SAT and SAT Subject Tests are listed below a few days before each test date.”
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However, I am writing this post on the night of September 07, 2019, and there was no SAT administered in Seattle today and no update to the SAT test closing web page. Instead, test takers were met with a sign on the test center door stating the test had been canceled, as Seattle principal Gerrit Kischner posted on Twitter:

cancelled with no notice in SE Seattle for the 2nd time in 2 weeks by @CollegeBoard , an unaccountable monopoly, affecting scores* of first gen college students, many of whom took time off work today, again, for this opportunity. Really?

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There you have it, Seattle students:
*Please contact College Board,* the organization that failed to follow its own policy about telling you of this second cancellation of a high-stakes test that CONTINUE READING: College Board Cancels Seattle SAT for Second Time in Two Weeks | deutsch29