Pressure-cooker kindergarten
Christine Gerzon is the epitome of a kindergarten teacher: warm and wise, quick to get down on her knees to wipe a tear or bandage a boo-boo. Yet two years ago, after 38 years as an educator, she threw up her hands and retired. She couldn’t stand the pressure. Increasingly in schools across Massachusetts and the United States, little children are being asked to perform academic tasks, including test taking, that early childhood researchers agree are developmentally inappropriate, even potentially damaging. Patti Hartigan, The Boston Globe, August 28, 2009
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