Responding to Students' Parents on National Examination Policy

摘要

National Examination as public policy on education has been implemented by Indonesia government for several years. Debates about the national exam become a national issue that can obstruct the implementation of this policy. This study describes the responding of student's parents on national examination policy which has been held in South Sulawesi. This research was a descriptive qualitative research with the ethnomethodology approach and held on January - February 2017. The study interviewed 32 students' parents of five Senior High School. This research showed that there were two groups of students parents' responses about the implementation of National Examination using Computer Based Test (CBT). The first group with disagree response based on the problem focus on student problem and schools facilities. The second group with agree response based on the benefit of the new system to the student, school, and government.