@apropos @lain I do want to mention that focusing on the test wasn't ever a big thing in the USA at all compared to europe, at least until AFTER "no child left behind" which, in my unique analysis, was really an indirect way to fire incredibly bad teachers by just shutting down the entire school (and implement "school choice"/private/magnet/etc.) and the tests you got for that were really "oh please god you should at least know these things" like, if a school had to switch to only "teaching to the test" then for all the alleged benefits of well rounded schooling students weren't ending up learning the most important things they should have been learning.