Burger here, schools are basically a prison/daycare combo, no glorification. Firstly, funding to schools is tied to test scores & graduation rates, you can understand the problem with this already; students do poorly and as a result schools make less money. Due to this, schools do a process called 'grade inflation', which is artificially decreasing the difficulty level of the tests in order that more idiot students will pass. Secondly, schools write off dropouts and expelled students as "graduates" to increase funding.
Then we have outsourcing the teaching & testing methods themselves, schools will sometimes pay 3rd party private corporations to administer their own techers & tests and give them their own private tests which can be used as a substitute for standardized testing. Students go into a room, write shit on paper, hand it to a grader, and then walk off. Firstly, these graders have no academic background, it's an entry-level job with no experience required, not only are they idiots at grading, but their bosses literally tell them they need to keep an average up to make the payroll and keep the suspicion off them, the bosses literally say "we need more 3's (on a scale of 1 to 5) on the tests. So start marking more of the english (the written essay portion of the exam) exams as 3's." in order to balance it out. Can't do too good or you're bound for an internal investigation, can't do too poorly because then no schools would buy into your scam.
Shit's fucked. I'm glad I was homeschooled.
Oh yeah, you have to pay for daycare here, too.
