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So kind of like the crazy cat lady that takes in 100 cats into her home, then quickly gets overwhelmed. The cats inside her home are malnourished, full of disease, and dead corpses are lying around throughout the house. In the end, the cats would have been better off on the outside.

The goal was to try and help, but actually, you end up doing more harm than good. 

This is the same conclusion MIT came to. They dropped the ACT/SAT and ended up adding it back on.

Not requiring tests actually raises socioeconomic barriers to vulnerable groups.

The result of no testing

• Schools get to mask how bad their teaching is by doing grade inflation
  
• Kids that get accepted into college aren't ready and end up failing
  
• A valuable tool for measuring the results of policy is lost
  
• Politicians can ignore areas where vulnerable groups live, which is regressive, not progressive, leading to more injustices and harming kids
  

"Throwing the measurement away doesn’t remedy underlying injustices in children’s academic opportunities, any more than throwing a thermometer away changes the weather."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ts/629455/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/02/politics/...index.html