I guess the answer depends on whom you ask.

You know about the big glitch in the March 8th SAT. Or, because the College Board has not yet publicly acknowledged it, maybe you don’t.

The people at Compass Education posted about it. There have been a few articles about it. But not a word from College Board except a notice to the affected students and test proctors.

This is how College Board does it. They just ignore it and try to stay out of the limelight. You can maybe summarize their strategy in a gif:

It comes on the heels, of course, of the College Board refusing to sign the response to the ridiculous, factually-incorrect “Dear Colleague” letter. A cynical person (certainly not me) might suggest that they were–despite their public posturing about diversity, access, and inclusion–actually thrilled with the not-so-subtle fascism in the letter, precisely because it suggested test-optional policies were illegal.

So, you may not have heard a thing from the College Board about this.

But you know who has heard about it? The good folks at the NTPA (the test preppers, not the tractor pullers.) One of them posted in a Facebook group, suggesting that he, and perhaps others in the group (who have direct access to people at College Board and ACT, even having them speak at conferences) have been informed that College Board has isolated the problem, and that they believe they’ve fixed it.

I’ll probably get in trouble for posting an image of the post from a private group I helped create, but hey, they can’t kick me out, because I left after one of the mods started acting like a kindergarten cop.

I believe this gentleman is a member of the ostensibly all-white board of the NTPA.

As the kids say, IYKYK: The once contentious relationship between College Board and the test prep industry seems to have thawed. I mean, none of us from back in the day thought this would happen, although we’ve seen it evolving for a while. Then again, none of us thought the US President would end up being the mouthpiece for Putin.

Here we are. “Members” are shut out, while members of the test-prep industry have wide-open access.

Not a damn word to the “membership.” (I have to put that word in quotation marks because the idea that the College Board is a “membership” organization is bullshit, of course.) It’s a business.

But if you are a “member” perhaps you could let the hand-picked Trustees know your displeasure. It will be a waste of electrons, because no one ever replies seriously to “members.”

But it might make you feel good. And it might open your eyes.