"A student's point of view: Kids don't want to learn" (CNN)

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The problem with this at the high school level is easy to spot: there is no such thing as “right” or “wrong” taste in the same way that there is a “right” or a “wrong” answer to most types of math problems or science calculations that high school students do. Instead, it is more appropriate to talk about “better” or “worse” taste. Given this, these are some things that might happen:
1)“Taste” can’t be measured well on a standardized test, so the “taste” disciplines are reduced to the bits that can be measured well on such instruments, if the subjects are even measured on a standardized test (read=prioritized in school) at all.
2)Because assignments that deal with questions of taste cannot be simply marked right or wrong, the grades given on those assignments can be open to a lot of contestation, which some K-12 administrators might find uncomfortable.
3)Because the institutional framework of modern K-12 is very hostile to teaching those subjects, a lot of people with real knowledge and passion for the “taste” disciplines are really not going to be inclined to teach them at the K-12 level.

Is that really more appropriate? Based on what standards can we say that one individual has better taste than another?</p>