The (primary) stated rationale behind these policies is to reduce the opportunity gap. This sort of makes sense to me; children from poorer families/villages are at a competitive disadvantage as long as wealthy parents are able to devote bottomless resources to their own offspring. I would think test prep is somewhat shielded because there are many good online options, some of which are free or close to free.

However, I have a hard time believing that X and company are truly in favor of isolation. All of those guys have seen past examples, including their own, of this, and it never produces favorable results. I will stop here because I don't want this thread to get moved to the dark side, especially since it's pretty much our only active thread in this subforum.