Testing, Testing, Testing

I do not agree the way testing is done. In public school, the STAARis mandatory. They sit in a room for however many hours and are expected to take this test. BECAUSE of the NCLB act, teachers are teaching to the test, because it loos bad on them is the test scores are low. This is not testing the holistic child. Children learn is so many different ways and should be tested in those same ways. My daughter makes herself so sick right before the test. Many do. It is not fair to the child. Yes, i do think that we need to measure what they are learning, but even in my toddler classroom, I get questionsed why Mark does not know that he is a boy and is three.