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By focusing on the efficiency of scoring well in tests, they can ignore the costs of the work left undone. These social, curricular and work environmental costs
by yason 16y ago
By focusing on the efficiency of scoring well in tests, they can ignore the costs of the work left undone. These social, curricular and work environmental costs don't have numbers now but they will manifest in concrete money years later. So effectively the school is borrowing from the wellbeing of the pupils and teachers at the current cost of zero, and moving it to gains in current productivity meters.
- NY_USA_Hacker 16y agoYup, broad problem in society, done wherever people can find an opportunity -- visible, short-term, small gain at hard to see long-term, large cost. But the solution is at hand: In the US, local schools are run by the local school boards, and tough to keep reality from the school board members, including in the "wellbeing" of the students.