We will be calling on parents and students to REFUSE the Smarter Balanced next spring. It makes no sense for students to participate in a psychometric assessment that doesn’t give parents a clear picture on their child’s proficiency in the core subjects.

Now that schools can use the SAT/ACT in 11th grade instead of the Smarter Balanced Assessment, should your kids participate?

We know the SAT will be Common Core aligned in 2016. BAD NEWS for all students. This is because David Coleman, chief architect of the Common Core Standards took over the helm at the College Board. Not only has he brought us bad academic standards for our schools, now he’s out to destroy the SATs too.

What can you do as a parent? Look at potential colleges your child will be applying too. IF they do not require the SAT/ACT, then there may be NO need for them to take it. In other words, REFUSING the SAT in 11th grade could be a real option next year.

In this article by NPR, they ask: Is This The Beginning Of The End For the SAT and ACT?
Many schools currently do not require SAT scores so why subject your children to the SAT/Common Core test if it’s not needed?

Excerpt:
Last year, NPR was given exclusive access to a study that found that a student’s high school academic record, regardless of what school she attended, is a far better predictor of college success than the SAT or ACT.

This first-ever study was conducted by William Hiss, the former dean of admissions at Bates College in Maine. Bates has been test-optional since 1984. Hiss studied 33 test-optional schools — big and small, private and public — then compared “non-submitters” to students who had submitted SAT scores.

He found virtually no difference in college grades or graduation rates. Students who did not submit their scores did just as well as those who did.