I see this too. As I posted on another thread, it frustrates me to no end to see schools avoid giving challenging work because it's seen as damaging but turn around and allow in-school advertising exploit young children who can't fully understand persuasive intent.

The schools are probably afraid their test scores would go down and the schools would not look good. Dumb down the tests , kids score higher and principal and school looks great. A friend who teaches at a public HS said they have made the math regents even easier this year and kids have to get less right to pass.