It's Just A Test

Photo courtesy http://www.flickr.com/photos/7176669@N04/We registered bebe for Kindergarten yesterday, and it was weird. We sat at these leetle, teensy tables, filled out an armload-and-a-half of paperwork and watched her go down that looong hallway all by herself (okay, fine, with the assessment coordinator) for the first time.

Weird.

Weirdest of all: we learned that Kindergartners are now 'assessed' throughout the year as the older kids are. You know, standardized tests. And that, at the...