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It’s become standard operating procedure for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government.

Last fall, Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office reported — and this is nothing new — that too many students are failing standardized tests in the province’s elementary and high schools.

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Only half of Grade 6 students met the provincial standard in math and only 44% of Grade 9 students in applied math.

Meanwhile, only 44% of Grade 9 students in the applied stream met the provincial literacy standard.

Faced with these numbers, the Wynne government ordered up a new study, titled “Ontario: A Learning Province,” which has now reported back that — surprise! — standardized testing is overrated.

It recommends scrapping it for Grades 3 and 9 and downgrading it in Grade 6.

Plus, high school students would no longer have to pass a literacy test to graduate and parents would no longer be able to use test results to compare schools.