SD, you are so right! And it isn't just Kindergarten! My younger two sons spend almost a week out of every quarter taking standardized tests of one sort or another. So more that 10% of the "teaching" time is gone before the teachers get to start. And when they can teach, they have to focus so much on teaching to the tests that they end up having to teach out of order, and focus on certain elements, ignoring other important thing, because they have to "prepare for the tests".
