It has been on the cards for a while and last month two of the largest teachers' unions moved yet another step closer to taking a stand against Sats tests.
Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) voted to ballot for industrial action calling for the abolishment of key stage two Sats for 2010.
The two unions have been seeking feedback on the potential strike action over the past few months and the NUT found that the overwhelming majority of its members rejected the tests as a good way of measuring children's progress.
In the indicative ballot it held back in November, where members' level of support for boycotting the tests was assessed, 95 per cent of those who voted said that current Sats system, where children are assessed at the end of key stages one and two, should be abolished.
On top of that, more than three-quarters (76 per cent) said they would be prepapred to boycott the tests if necessary.
The overall turnout for the ballot was just under a quarter of NUT members, which the union said was a very high number for an assessment of opinion. It also pointed out that crucially, leadership members, who would be at the forefront of action, turned out for the indicative ballot in more force. Of this group, 35 per cent gave their opinions in the vote.
At the same time, members of the NAHT also said in a similar survey that there were strongly in favour of scrapping the tests, which have been a bone of contention for many years now.
The unions stressed that they would not be asking teachers to strike, but that the action would be designed to "frustrate the administration of Sats".
Critics of the test suggest that teachers are forced to focus so much on preparing children for the tests that they neglect other areas of the curriculum.
"These tests are highly damaging to pupils' education and fail to provide any meaningful information on the work of schools," said Christine Blower, NUT General Secretary.
She said that the results of the indicative ballot marked a "huge endorsement" to the two unions' anti-Sats campaign.
"The NUT and NAHT call upon the government to engage urgently in constructive talks about ending the tests and putting in their place alternative assessment that will be of value to pupils, teachers and parents," she added.
Both unions want to prevent Sats from being used to "construct meaningless league tables of school results" and to "humiliate and demean" the work of teachers employed in some of the toughest communities.
They also want to stop them being used by inspectors to "pre-judge" schools and also hope that the abolishment of Sats would prevent teachers being forced to spend hours rehearsing past papers.
"The current system has resulted in thousands of children moving to the next phase of their education with misleading information about their ability," said Mick Brookes, General Secretary of the NAHT.
"It has also led, quite unjustifiably, to schools and their communities being labelled as 'failing' with the consequence of damaging recruitment of head teachers and worsening their working environment," he continued.
But Schools Minister Vernon Coaker labelled the move to boycott the tests as "disappointing".
He said that he had met with Mr Brookes recently and had since written to him welcoming the "considerable" progress that had been towards strengthening the role of teacher assessment and making sure that more information is accessible to parents.
"I made clear that we are committed to improving the assessment and accountability system to ensure it is fair to schools and teachers [and] provides the best possible picture of the progress made by every pupil," he continued.
"It is nonsense to claim the tests are meaningless," Mr Coaker added, referring to a report by the Expert Group last year which said Sats are "educationally beneficial" and provide parents with "objective information on their children's progress".
He concluded: "It's time to challenge the myth that children spend their entire primary school career preparing for the tests – the fact is that from this year, children will do just two externally marked tests before they are 14."