Gaithersburg HS canceled SAT testing site for Dec 3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Somebody shared the information here on November 16: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1094514.page#23779526

But that's really awful for your students if they just got the notice now.

That was me who shared the information. Looking back, I should have written the same Subject this OP did.

But, yes. Gaithersburg was canceled at least a couple weeks ago. We were never notified. No one was notified that it was canceled. Nobody received an email saying it was canceled. My DD only found out because a friend of hers mentioned it. I guess her dad was proactive in clicking that link to see if a testing site had been canceled? Thankfully, we were able to reschedule to a different location. I made sure to tell other friends and posted it here.

I am assuming more people will find out in the next few days that Gaithersburg has been canceled and unfortunately for them, it will be too late to change locations.

OP here. Thanks pp, and to all the pp's. YES -- College Board said the students should have noticed on Nov. 15th because the money was refunded to their parents accounts. WTF!!!!! I don't track my bank account like that, and it's mine. The students don't have access to their parents bank accounts.

They can refund your money, but they can’t manage to send you an email?

[Anonymous]

Another class of 2021 parent here. Sad to hear that this continues to happen. Good to call the testing site periodically to make sure the test is still on because clearly the College Board and ACT are continuing not to communicate cancellations in time.

[Anonymous]

Call them out on Facebook if you were directly impacted. In the comments, CB seems to suggest they just can’t notify people of last minute closures. But I’m reading on here that isn’t what transpired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another class of 2021 parent here. Sad to hear that this continues to happen. Good to call the testing site periodically to make sure the test is still on because clearly the College Board and ACT are continuing not to communicate cancellations in time.

OP here. The only place to really see was to log in to SAT or google the testing site and check online. I think that has to be the CYA option. I will start to advise my students to check once a week. I called GHS front office and they couldn't tell me any information. Only the college and career counselor, who was out all week. I sent her an email and haven't heard back. I also sub at GHS and no one had any information.