shocking.
"i propose less tests and more recess."
i think she's half right, but she's got it backwards. people who have attended university have been through these courses where you take a final exam that's worth 60-75% of your grade. they're often multiple choice, and focus on irrelevant details. they're worded in tricky, confusing ways. as metrics, they're useless in determining anything other than whether the student can memorize large amounts of mostly useless information - information that can be googled in 20 seconds in the modern real world. many large employers also use similar tests for screening purposes.
like it or not, and criticize it's value, but it's what job applicants have to deal with in the real world.
walking into that reality, i wish i'd been prepped for it a bit more. i never took tests like that in high school and never really adjusted properly.
it's got to be one way or the other - either we need to prepare our kids better for what's going to happen when they get older, or we need to revamp everything. as it is, as long as the universities and employers continue to use these kinds of tests, it's important to get the kids ready. this idea of marching kids along naively and shrugging when they don't adjust to the things you never taught them is really shitty.
she denies that the results of the test are meaningful. whomever told her this is wrong. her ability to pass tests of this sort will have long term implications, when she starts writing them as a young adult.