The idea that ignoring/euphemizing learning loss is some sort of altruistic social justice move is absolutely bonkers

Measuring learning loss need not be stigmatizing; it's a necessary step to establish need for crucial resources otherwise easy to deny https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/us/school-testing-education-covid.html?referringSource=articleShare

Also, this quote abt a parent offended to learn her kid’s reading is lagging seems to me more illustrative of the troubling issue of parents wanting schools to reflect back their own image of their kids than anything else

Usually we read about such things in elite privates, but:

The best recent treatment of this kind of parental prerogative when it comes to school governance, curricular control, and general power in the schoolhouse is here by @CaitlinPacific

Different context, but the spirit is similar https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/