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Originally Posted by Regorium
This is another point. If the parents are so involved in their kid's educations, they should homeschool them, rather than force the whole system to change just for their kid.
Obviously, ideally we are all ambitious, motivated and learn everything out by figuring it out ourselves. Unfortunately, the real world and real kids just aren't like that. There needs to be some element of repetition and assessment to ensure that they have a basic level of knowledge that will be useful years down the road.
The system is not perfect, but it is not broken. They are not forcing the kid to go to school. They can just homeschool and take the provincial exams at the end of the training and prove to everybody that it works.
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Of course assessment is a key part of education and students should be assessed very regularly, but testing is only one kind of assessment. Assessment can take many forms and those students could be assessed much more than 80 times per year exclusively using other assessment methods. Testing is common practice, but by no means is it necessary for effective assessment.