students success. Students worry about not being able to memorize terms and formulas. Teachers worry about their teaching ability and being evaluated based on their student's performance. Many parents believe that standardized testing is overshadowing other teaching methods, and styles of learning. “ A recent poll by teachers college at Columbia University who opts-out and why shows 33.8% activists in the opt-out community believe standardized tests force teachers to teach the test” (Howell, 2016). The cut off determining whether a student is competent helps politicians and investors to make a profit of harsh grading scales in order, to privatize public schools. Politicians and investors who set the standards can make them high causing students