All over the country incompetent teachers rejoice. They now won’t have to suffer the possibility that they, like those multiple Atlanta and Fulton/DeKalb County teachers, have to eventually get caught faking the results. Praise be, they are free.
Government school parents don’t want to have to face the fact that their favorite welfare entitlement - “free” daycare in a government medium security institution - is making their children dumb as rocks. The Government education special interests want their money without accountability. Politicians don’t want to anger the education special interests by exposing their failure. It’s all pretty simple. This is not to say all of the testing is well designed or useful, but the real issue is aversion to exposing the truth about government schools.
I’ve got two kids in school right now, and the amount of time required for testing is simply ridiculous. My (then) third grade son devoted three weeks straight last spring to standardized tests, which wore him to a frazzle. So yeah, they need to go away.
Who cares if they cannot read or write. When they are looking for a job and are unable to fill out the application they will blame everybody else but themselves. That is what they have been taught. Oh yeah and Hillary will give them free college so they can sit around and do nothing for another 4 years.