Kindergarten Starts Next Week

There is a provocative article in the Boston Globe about Pressure-cooker kindergarten, that describes the frustration of educators who feel mandated standards and testing are forcing them to make early childhood education a creativity-killing exercise for our kids. Everything I have seen to date with respect to Westwood leads me to believe this is NOT the case here. There is some talk about whether the kids are "ready" or not...and some parents will hold their kids back a year, especially boys with summer birthdays. But that is a whole different world from the insane situations described in some of the "college-prep" kindergartens.