"“She sees where her scores fall on all these charts compared to all these other kids, and then she feels like she is behind or ahead or right in the middle, so

"“She sees where her scores fall on all these charts compared to all these other kids, and then she feels like she is behind or ahead or right in the middle, so she feels like she’s just average rather than excellent at what she does,” she said." to me that feels like everything that is wrong with education right now. Talking to friends that are educators. parents seem to want to be blissfully ignorant of anything that says their child isn't a genius. Parents seem to think that passing the mandated standardized test is a sign that their child is ahead rather than what it really means that they might just barely have met the min bar.