This is by far, the clearest assessment I have seen to date that you have the position and job you have, yet there are probably thousands, if not tens of thousands, of others better qualified and experienced than you to make these types of calls. I eagerly and with great interest read your information about the paranoid rich sociopaths who call the shots in Silicon Valley and similar.

If by "achievement" you mean "actually doing work" that is a "yes." If by assessment, you mean monitoring and providing feedback upon actual work: yes.

Tens of thousands of qualified and engaged teachers do this at all times, at all levels of education. Learning, as any qualified and experienced educator will advise, involves combining prior experience and the student's innate nature and gifts with activities and actions that provide new information and offer the opportunity for practice and a synthesis of what came before, with what is new. The synthesis is the learning. You correctly identify students from Europe who participated in actual learning.

I honestly no longer care, and this may well come as a shock to you but I don't sense from you that you have the first clue about how to motivate a real student or what their learning and achievement would look like or be. I'm done with the classroom: I have done my duty and then some. Oh, and Mr Expert? One of my learning activities was writing John Dewey: Founder of American Liberalism. What I just wrote, he established the basis of in the 1920s - but really, Maria Montessori thought of it and did it first. You may have heard of her schools and movement. Nobody would use ChatGPT to generate a paper in a Montessori school - unless they were experimenting with ChatGPT and the action was part of research.