FL kindergarten teacher stands up to testing, FLDOE listens. No K-2 testing for now.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

7. In Texas, we had to give individual reading tests, requiring us to ignore the rest of our class

and the results were not very useful. It was just one more week of testing taken out of the school year. There was not much time left to teach. Since I've retired and opened my own tiny school at home, I haven't given a single test, but I can tell you exactly how well each of my students is doing.

I visited a school in Sweden while at a family reunion. They didn't start school until the age of seven, didn't take a single test until the age of eleven and they are not dummies. (What I liked most about the visit was the lack of top heavy administration; the principal was in charge of three school.)