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  • Everyone in the education system, at every level, is incentivized to inflate grades and pass more students.

    When I was in university too many kids started failing the intro classes so they had to add additional mandatory intro classes that used to be covered at high school.

    Government don’t want to pay teachers, teachers don’t want to get called out for failing kids who were under-equipped for their class, so they pass them, then the next year teacher has to do the same, or they look bad. The government adds standardized tests, which become the target, because that what will make the schools look bad. Then the colleges/universities want higher enrolment for more money. They don’t care what happens after kids graduate.

    I think the answer is standardized testing needs to become more holistic, universities need to do entrance testing instead of relying on standardized tests, teachers need to get funded so they can teach kids instead of spending all their time dealing with a few problem students, and we need to let kids fail and re-introduce “streaming” teaching where smart kids can get into classes with smart kids, and unmotivated kids can get put into classes that refocus their learning and fix their fundamentals.