“standardized tests have their role”
Achievement is important, but so is testing. Without measurement, there is no achievement.
It is a good thing these special snowflakes don’t go to private schools, they would implode when they find out they have to be tested weekly!
Private schools had been the gold standard in my area for years, but now are so desperate they’ll take anyone who can pay. Often they are used just for the physical safety they afford students (compared to the public school alternative).
We’ve also lost a lot of private schools as the economy continues to tank, primarily Catholic schools.
It seems very popular to call anyone who complains in a way you don’t like a snowflake, but we have not looked at what OTHER kind of testing happens in the schools.
Achievement in what? All government school tests are politicized. I have no interest in that sort of “achievement” for my children. No one who has a child in government schools is truly committed to a free country.