There are a number things that you guys have (like, you know, colleges with good networks, considering all our schools are too cheap to get anything better than about 100 kb/s. Oh, and you guys get cool concerts, canada fucking blows for music.) But I'm just saying that I really don't see the point in all those tests. I prefer our system since it doesn't have those tests which really don't make sense. And I'm not trying to hate on standardized testing overall, because we have a standardized test which is useful.
I AM biased, since I live here, but I just don't understand anything at all about why they have so many of those tests, if their grading scheme is totally messed up, they aren't necessarily all that accurate, etc.
We had (have?) some tests that they give kids at grade 3 and grade 6 (not sure if they are still running or not) that were introduced with the literacy test being the final one, but they were pretty much just a ploy by the teachers to make people think we're getting smarter, by making each test easier. So it's not like we don't have our share of stupid tests, I just didn't mention them because nobody around here gives a shit about them.