My kids and the better teachers at their school also hate iReady for generally the same reasons stated in the post. I recommend this article [0], along w/ this related reddit thread [1] (there are countless others)

Worth mentioning: The maker of iReady, Curriculum Associates, is majority-owned by private equity (shocking).

[0] https://archive.ph/hsvbh

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskTeachers/comments/1rdowny/iready...

This is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what makes school boards buy this software, while many alternatives apparently exist. I don't think that school officials are unaware that kids hate it, and parents agree with their kids.