It is an act of
fancy rhetorical footwork to blame states and municipalities for an over focus on standardized testing when FEDERAL requirements have incentivized that very focus, first with threats to
label schools as failures under NCLB and then with the Obama administration pressuring states to
use discredited statistical models to evaluate teachers as part of Race to the Top.
You could also
use a stencil (either cut out with a Silhouette or purchased) of a
fancier label, instead of the painters tape, and still
use the craft paint.