The entire faculty of a Seattle-area high school has voted to refuse giving students a standardized test used in teacher evaluations. In a unanimous decision that is likely the first of its kind nationwide, teachers at Garfield High School said the MAP tests are a waste of time, money and resources that are then unfairly used to grade their performance.

Jesse Hagopian: “Today isn’t just about testing in general; it’s about a particularly flawed test.”

Kit McCormick: “And I just see no use for it at all. And so, I’m not going to do it.”

Writing on her website, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch said the vote could have national ramifications for showing teachers “There is strength in unity and that they do not have to endure unethical demands with passivity and resignation.”