Parents and society have a right to test student achievement

It is hard to believe that B.C.'s teachers, who all just received a payout from the government, would allow its union to once again publicly criticize any attempt to measure student achievement.
The payout was based on money the government saved during the recent teachers' strike across B.C., so it can be argued the money should have gone to teachers anyways. However, I am not sure how many striking unionized workers, public or private sector, get back some of the money they lost because of a strike? I would guess not very many.
That said, however, the issue here is the BCTF has stated it doesn't want its members (teachers) to support changes being made to the Foundations Skills Assessments tests which are administered to Grades 4 and 7 students annually.
The BCTF has long criticized these tests, and now is recommending teachers, while still administering the exams, not support the new changes.
We can't help but question why every single attempt to measure education, and therefore teachers, is shunned by the BCTF? Perhaps the FSA system isn't perfect, but at least it offers some accountability to parents and society. And there needs to be accountability.
We know the BCTF would like the BCTF to be the only measuring stick for how good a job teachers (its members) are doing, but that is ridiculous. Parents and society have a right to test student achievement as a measure of how our education system is doing.