Maybe they're both right. But surely something fundamental has changed. Such experience is alien to most children today. Conform to one mold, children are told. Focus on tests, they are told.
Someone eventually explodes.
By one standard, a better course of action would be to return music, art and nature to the schools. And quit measuring students as if they were born only to take tests. We don't know. More likely we'll see more restrictions on physical and intellectual expression, a seemingly rational response that may, in fact, help build the pressure for another explosion. But nothing is horrible in America for more than 10 days.