In summary, consider why you feel you must test your child. If taking the test means your child will qualify for some program in which he or she desperately wants take part, by all means, let him or her take the test. Districts tend to think that if they can get some homeschoolers to test, then they have the right to require all homeschoolers to test, and this hurts us all. The defect in the intelligence test is that high marks are gained by those who subsequently prove to be practically illiterate. So much time has been spent in studying the art of being tested that the candidate has rarely had time for anything else.
Children learn less.
Writes Jan Hunt, in The Natural Child Project. Those tougher tests that were supposed to inspire sagging schools have spurred parents, students and teachers to rebel against the exams' harmful side effects. Measuring Learning Without Testing Wendy Priesnitz, founder of The Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers, on how to evaluate learning without testing. Narration Beats Tests By Karen Andreola. Charlotte Mason worked with children's desire to tell what they know.