When I see massive teacher resistance to such tests (as we’ve had recently here in NJ), I suspect they fear the scales will fall from parents’ eyes regarding the “education” their children are receiving. They’ve been sending home glowing report cards for decades, and the students don’t know very much. My children’s classes have received “extra credit” for bringing cans in for food drives, attending “multicultural night” (for English extra credit?), etc.; if these tests expose the lies, the sooner the better.
If they are credibly objective... which is the rub. We don’t need to be bowing to airy fairy Common Core criteria.
I worked with a woman whose kids went to an elementary school right by our work and she would pick them up and bring them over for about an hour until she got off from work. Her daughter was in third grade. One day I asked her what they did in school that day. She said they learned how to recycle pumpkins. She could barely read but she knew how to recycle a pumpkin.