Mmh, but ain't standardized testing a good thing? At least in Germany it is, we got huge problems with education quality between states to the point a 1.0 (best grade, 6.0 being the worst) from Brandenburg is barely worth a 2.0 from Bavaria. By now at least high school exams get partially standardized… not enough though (federal law can be a huge bitch, states are clinging to their power).

I've no idea about the situation in the US though tbh.

the problem is there are so many of them and so much rides on them that teachers have no ability to adjust things to the needs of the students. they always need to be teaching to the test.

the teachers are under constant pressure to reach certain goals and never given enough wiggle room to actually achieve those goals other than brute force. There just isn't enough time to get all the material in even if nothing goes wrong and nobody is struggling or falling behind.

This is true even with teachers being demanded to due massive amounts of overtime and being severely underpaid. They're having to fake results or pass failing students just to keep their jobs.

Nobody is winning in this situation.

I went to one of the ""best"" public school in the nation and it was also like this.

Oh, I see. That sucks phenomenally, I'm not surprised though. It's not much better here for teachers, they regularly lose their jobs during summer so the states don't have to pay them during the holidays. Meanwhile the schools are full of mold and falling apart, sometimes literally - a lot of rooms by now are in repurposed living containers. It's utter insanity, but hey, neo libertarianism at work I guess.

No wonder you got at least one school shooting per day over there.

Schools seem to be run by feckless "leaders". I don't wish them ill, but they all deserve to burn if they're just going to let the students run everything.

Lots of people being blackpilled against formal schooling rn 👀

I work in #IT, without a degree because I suck at school (although a degree would prolly get me a raise, I'm working on that).

There are good schools out there for sure, but we got these weak universities and stuff letting the inmates run the asylum and that's setting a bad example for the other colleges. #NYU, #UCLA, #Columbia, etc.

And that example trickles down and leads to stuff like the post you shared. It's society breaking down, piece by piece.