Now—who in their right mind would say, “pshaw, Ms. Copeland! Big Everest wants you to think climbing is hard so that fewer people will try. If you buy my secret, you’ll glide right up that mountain!”? Nobody! Then why would we believe that carefully constructed assessments based on curriculum that students learn over the course of 12 years of education can be hacked with what amounts to a cheat code (I have actually seen this analogy being used without irony)? It’s absurd.