Over time, educators and IT professionals realized Wikipedia is about as reliable as other encyclopedias and there are many advantages to using it, including a wider collection of articles that are updated more frequently compared to printed encyclopedias.
It’s always interesting to me that people, including many educators, don’t realize “4th grade math” (and choose your own grade & subject) isn’t really a thing.
When done “at scale,” a standard curriculum must become information centric, and view students as recipients of that information. To do otherwise introduces too many variables to be manageable.
When technology is put in the hands of users, they identify weaknesses with the original plan, they find other things that can be done with the technology that are far from what was intended.
Surely, there are instances in which we know what learners need to know, we can define it, and both build technology-based solutions and measures the degree to which they were accomplished. But these are rarer than we admit.
Sure, you can express your opinions, but once outed as unreasonable and illogical, it’s OK for us to ignore you. Many of us who work in data and logic have an obligation to ignore you.