The problem is that students and parents are not held accountable for failure in America. It's either the teachers, admins, or politicians who appoint the admin

The problem is that students and parents are not held accountable for failure in America. It's either the teachers, admins, or politicians who appoint the admins. So it's clear how that reaction to testing is incentivized. It was not always this way. Stuff changed about 40 years ago during the Cold War. The objectives changed, but the attitude that failure was always the fault of the educational system rather than larger cultural forces on students never went away.