"You have a point about the need for society to improve somewhat, Professor Mayhem, but then you started eating babies so everything you just said is invalid! It's awesome how the status quo doesn't need to be changed at all!"
Many times in the past, corpos have been told with substantial evidence that "crunch time" actually means less productivity overall and that well-rested employees do better work, but they like "crunch time" anyway and the cruelty is the point so they ignore that.
They say "history is bunk" because they don't want to look into history first. That'd take time out of their very busy day of coming up with "new" ideas.
Apparently the origins of standardized testing are surprisingly dark even for what it is: in the leadup to WW1, they wanted a way to separate the brains in the bunkers from the bodies in the trench.
Later versions of standarized testing, the ones conjured up by undead creatures like Bill "The Good One" Gates, were intended to be failed as a justification for privatizing more schools and selling more standardized testing.
The printed version, please. The movie kind of misses the point and becomes hog slop.