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What gets me is that the last ten years has been this myopic fixation on standardized exams. Laser focus on teachers getting kids ready for the next round of grueling high stakes exams. No time for experimentation or labs or school trips. No time for art or music or athletics. Just exams. All the time. Forever.
Now we've got these far right demagogues insisting everything needs Christian pastiche. So I have to wonder... will the Pearson Exams be rewritten to grade kids on Bible Literacy? Is this just bonus material kids are expected to absorb on top of their regular course load (in a state that can't afford a five day school week for 55 of its schools)? Or is this literally just window dressing - changing out my school mascot for the Fightin' Jesuses?
That is the thing, they won't! Teachers that don't follow the Bible guidance will be fired. Those that do will have their students fail.
The end result will be "the schools are failing and parents want to put their children in christan schools, so let's take the best students out of failing public schools ... and now they are failing more! Time to totally abandon public education."