Online SAT is a terrible idea.

cinnamon1212
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:00:49 +0000

Six feet away (every other seat) is no guarantee of safety – we just don’t know enough about transmission at this point. As of today, the experts have modified their advice to say that COVID apparently can travel 13 feet (the CDC).

Furthermore, finding enough testing sites would be tremendously difficult since traditional ones (high schools) are closed.

There are just too many pitfalls to this scenario. If in person testing was OK in one form or another it would go forward as it has traditionally, simply because there are so many many things that can go wrong with the online method. If the College Board could possibly manage in person testing they will.

Furthermore, they will have to be super careful because if their actions could arguably be considered negligent (i.e. it is not clear that getting 20 kids in a room together for an extended period of time is absolutely safe) there will be liability issues that their insurer will care a great deal about. In that scenario, if all goes well – great! If all does not go well, if thousands of cases are created by taking the SAT and if kids die (because, hello, in NY alone 56 young people (in their twenties or younger) have died in the past 30 days (approx). Two a day. In one state. You don’t think that parents will sue?