When the Australian education system was hoodwinked into copying the New York testing-based system in 2008, it did not know what it was letting itself in for...
Put simply, this scheme was based on tests of those parts of the school curriculum that are easy to test. It had no legitimate educational, learning nor teaching basis beyond the ancient British Grammar School cum Gradgrind bang-crash-wallop gathering of data in a way that is sometimes described as 'instruction'...
There was no protection for the full holistic curriculum, the life-sustaining, aesthetic, creative, mental and physical-based subjects...