They could save a lot of money by just building basketball courts, give the kids basketballs and give diplomas for putting the ball through the hoop from a distance. Kids would be happy, taxpayers would be happier. Skip the exams, lay off all the “teachers”.
Cheaper yet - forget the basketball and just weigh ‘em. If they’re over 50 pounds, they pass!
The teachers would never allow it (they’d insist you needed to pay them 6 figures to supervise the basketball court, and nobody else had their special qualifications), and in the end it doesn’t work because the products of that system, just like the products of the current failed system, would still insist on a share of your wealth.
The “gibsmedat” mantra repeated endlessly today by semi-literates (including college “graduates”) is caused by the fact that if you gave each of them a doctorate, many still can’t read (and therefore earn much of a living).