[ChildOfThe60s]

Because the receipt of federal dollars is at stake unless 95 percent of students participate in standardized testing, test participation is treated as more important than actual performance.

Follow the [federal] money. The Florida school system is incompetent and seriously corrupt administratively and academically. I speak from first hand experience. Virtually no part of it is any way to judge a child's true level of learning.

[wintertime]

The Florida school system is incompetent and seriously corrupt administratively and academically.
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Corrupt and incompetent is the very definition of a socialist-entitlement program.
No one should be surprised that the government's K-12 socialist-entitlement schools are corrupt and incompetent.

There will be some government school defender who will claim that their child's school is not corrupt and incompetent. Dig a little deeper into those schools and you will find that it is the **parents** in these homes who are doing tons of after schooling and private tutoring. That after schooling is never measured.

[kearnyirish2]

The education industry hasn’t been about educating children for decades; it is simply a scheme to (very successfully) funnel taxpayer dollars to the Democratic Party - which is just the political arm of the teachers’ unions. They have foot-soldiers in every municipality, feed on the occupied host like an invading army, and fund the campaigns of politicians who will throw even more through the taxpayer money laundering machine.

Brilliant, and devastatingly effective.