I guarantee teachers do not want to do this nonsense paperwork. But bureaucrats keep piling on more and more. Teachers are taken out of the classroom to learn what these assessments are, then they need a day out of the classroom each month in order to fill out the paperwork. Throw on another assessment, and they need another day. Then they need a day to look at all the data. Then they need a day to retrain because their students are doing so poorly. Then all the students need remedial teaching in small groups because the teacher has been gone all semester. Then the tests that bureaucrats chose show that the students are falling behind, so those tests need to be dropped and easier tests given. A search for new screening and assessment begins. And so it goes.
It’s all about data. Data data data. You should see the assessments for preschoolers. And all the data collection. Teachers collect all the data. Is it quality data? Who knows? Does anyone ever use the data? Hahaha. Only to justify funding the collection of more data.
That's why they have a Union. The Union is failing them if they don't fight this crap. Back in 1980, I became a correction officer in NY State's prison system. One of our duties was to hand out medications each night when we went down the prison gallery to take the count. We were handing out controlled substances (Elavil, Sinequan, etc.), not pills, but liquid form. The meds came in huge bottles, that we had to dispense with an eyedropper that was attached to the bottle cap. I don't know how long this procedure had been in effect before I started, but at some point, over the next couple of years, the Union fought to get this part of our job reassigned to the medical department, which is where it should have been to begin with. I believe the Union threatened a lawsuit based on the fact that we weren't medically certified to administer drugs of any type. The State had to make drastic changes, which meant that the prisoners would have to be placed on a daily "call out" to go to the infirmary to have their meds dispensed by medical personnel. This was still the practice when I retired in 2003.