Test madness

Here's an argument for home-schooling:

"It's just yet another example that the country has gone test crazy," said Robert Schaeffer, public education director for FairTest, a national nonprofit that advocates for other methods of assessing young children. "This sort of insanity testing produces test coaching for little kids and gaming of the system by parents and others to figure out what's on the test and get their kid a leg up. We're not letting kids be kids, and we're making them into little Einsteins."

Parents hire tutors to help their kids pass admission tests for kindergarten? Yes, I've heard about this kind of thing before, and it always amazes me. I wonder how many organic learning opportunities - e.g., through play and socializing and nature walks - these kids are missing while they cram for those silly tests.