Stop the testing...Bring back the joy..

[kath]

6. This is why we homeschooled our kids.

We wanted to keep their curiosity and love of learning alive.
Schools tend to suck out the joy of learning and suck the life out of the child. We did NOT want this done to our children.

We pulled our oldest out 19 years ago, after kindergarten.Did this because the kindergarten was NOT developmentally appropriate, (sat in on a first grade classrom, and that was even worse) and the emphasis on standardized testing in the schools was too much.
HA - compared to now, things were great then. The emphasis on testing, and on treating the youngest ones in VERY developmentally inappropriate ways has gotten worse and worse and worse. I weep for this country's children, especially the littlest ones as they enter the soul-sucking school system.