St. Johns County School District investigating technology failure that led to canceled exams

It’s A's all around for St. Johns County students.

On Tuesday, Superintendent Tim Forson announced that all students in grades six through 12 would receive 100% on district final exams he canceled last week due to a system error.

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Lila Antonelli, a student at Patriot Oaks Academy, was thrilled she didn’t have to take exams.

She told Action News Jax, “This year it was really easy because we didn’t have finals.”

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The sixth grader’s father Bill Antonelli wasn’t as excited.

He said, “I haven’t heard much about exactly why they did it other than technical problems and stuff. It’d be good to know what happened.”

Only Action News Jax sat down with Forson on Wednesday to discuss the canceled exams.

He said it wasn’t a specific system that caused the problem.

“We do use a third-party system that helps us with the establishment of a platform by which we can administer district exams that we have created," Forson explained.

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According to the superintendent, not every school was experiencing the same issue.

He said, “They would start to test. It would shutdown. tThey would get kicked out, while, at another school, students taking the same test worked right through it.”

Forson said the district is updating to a new system so this won’t happen again.

He said he expects the update to be in place by the end of the first semester of the next school year.