Would you like to opt your child out of SAGE computer adaptive tests?
Click to get our opt-out form and instructions.
Which districts are known to be friendly or unfriendly:
Opt-out friendly districts
- Alpine actually created a simple form for parents to use
- Cache
- Canyons
- Davis
- Duchesne
- Granite
- Jordan
- Morgan
- Provo
- Tooele
- Uintah
- Wasatch
- Weber
- Washington
Not Opt-out friendly districts
- Nebo refuses and claims to tie computer adaptive test scores to student grades (unknown how they do this since the test is different for every student)
Opt-out friendly charter schools and other programs
- Innovations High School
- Summit Academy Jr/High
- Thomas Edison (Logan)
Not Opt-out friendly charter schools and other programs
- Harmony Ed
- My Tech High
Please comment below if you have successfully or unsuccessfully used the opt-out form with another district and I will update this table as the comments come in.
My mostly homeschooled boys began the SAGE tests in their science classes at Mountain Crest High School (Cache County School District). I didn’t realize the SAGE tests were going on until they came home the first day describing them. (I thought they were just taking “normal” end-of-trimester final tests.) I pulled them out the next morning without any trouble.
Jordan School District in Utah doesn’t disallow it, but they are clearly displeased & bite your head off for it.
My boys were allowed to opt out at Innovations High in Salt Lake School District. The teachers didn’t think it was allowed, but the administration didn’t give me any trouble at all and were very supportive.
My kids attend two different schools in Tooele County School District. The principal from one and vice principal from the other were both very supportive and gave me no hassle at all.
I used the Alpine district’s opt out form and filled it out for my daughter’s school in the Granite District. They immediately issued me a letter granting the opt out. Please get everyone you can to at least try it! The more parents that can pull their kids, the better. Maybe the whole thing will come crashing down. We can only hope and pray every day that this monstrocity gets defeated.
My children attend two different schools in the Davis School District. I opted them out of the testing, and it was very simple – I wrote a letter to each principal, and one responded that I didn’t even need the letter, verbal notice is sufficient.
I successfully opted my daughter out of SAGE in the Canyons District. I had a very positive conversation with her princ