The cynic in me thinks this is 100% working as intended if you view school (especially before university) as an industrial sssembly line to produce the obedien

The cynic in me thinks this is 100% working as intended if you view school (especially before university) as an industrial sssembly line to produce the obedient little workers of the future. By making kids “accept” to be arbitrarily graded by an automated black box on seemingly virtuous but absurd criteria in practice, they’re being trained for what the future of work might become if coporations get their way and put AI everywhere they can. Or if they’re lucky they learn instead to cheat the system and/pr hack it but that’s a minority who will become misfits in their professional lives. I hope you were able to cheer your kid up, regardless but this is a scary look into the near future.