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It's incredibly silly to think the US can beat cram cultures like China or South Korea at the test score game, and parents watching their kids drag themselves through hours of soulless homework are starting to question whether that's the game we should care about winning.
I think if parents get more chances to see kids being generative — building real things, starting real companies, reading & theorizing w/o prompting, defining their own projects — they'll want that for their kids, despite the fear of losing the test score/college admissions race
Unfortunately, there's not much parents can do about it. If anything, reform efforts are making education more centralized, which means that local communities have less leverage over how their schools work. Private schools & homeschool co-ops will probably have to lead the way
also the fear of failure that is imparted since childhood based on test scores 
Some popular phrases I used to hear when growing up "you'll only be a cattle farmer"(translated ofcourse)
Yes, I think it's terribly harmful to little ones. Even when adults try to be gentle, it is very difficult for a child to cope with being labeled by a series of numbers, especially if their numbers aren't as good as the other kids'.
100%. For now my 4-y.o. twins are in Montessori, but I fear it’s going to be tougher to keep them out of the education rat race as they get older. Need good options for older kids.
Considering creating a scalable master/apprenticeship program for teens as a possible long-term direction for what I'm working on. IMO, the "high school" age range should be a period for doing real work w/ mentors, but w/o the financial ties that create inflexibility for adults
JT Gatto has a throwaway line in one of his books — I forget which— where he asserts you could teach everything (that matters) that a kid learns in grades 1-6 in about sixty contact hours if you stripped out all the fluff and busywork. I tend to agree.
The lunacy is centered around the concept of “The Carnegie Unit,” in which the system alleges that a kid can’t possibly know a credit’s worth of stuff in fewer than 75 hours of instruction.
There's a diligent/generative tradeoff. Personally, I seem to do better in environments where the former attribute is rewarded. For all the talk of the US valorizing test scores, holy shit are there a lot of people with good test scores struggling to make ends meet right now.
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