> We’re talking about education. Simple question: In your country, do you have people trying to get rid of standardized testing on the theory that it’s “racist?

> We’re talking about education. Simple question: In your country, do you have people trying to get rid of standardized testing on the theory that it’s “racist?” Well, I'm from .be where teachers fight it. There are many excuses used, inequality coming to the foreground in the past 10 years or so, but the real reason is that it would allow comparison between teachers and schools (and thus expose bad teachers and schools). The whole sector rallies around this opposition, including the various levels of government (because selective parents are a cause of higher expenditures). Public education is objectively worse than the (less funded) alternatives. We have 7 different governments, 4 of which have their own education system. They're all worse than private education, and catholic education when test scores at universities get compared.