I’m going to take a wild guess that the executive who approved or thought up this idea has an MBA from an Ivy League school. It’s all part of the Ivy League not actually living up to its reputation of producing leadership for this country.
So many stupid education theories start in those same Ivory Towers - from ideal, lefty, educational theorists - who have never taught school - and are sure they know how to run your classroom and how to teach better than YOU, an actual teacher. (Whole Language vs. Phonics, for example which made sure an entire generation of kids couldn’t read).
We were forced to implement many of these stupid ideas - all of which failed (ask Bill Gates about that!) and cost millions, if not billions of dollars, all wasted - and set kids back years.
Of course, today is now all about gay right, trans issues, equity and other leftist ideals - not reading, writing and computing.
And educational test scores reflect exactly that.