Exactly, UM.
We've joked over the years that we handed our (public) school a fully literate 6yo with a four hour attention span, and they've given us back an impulsive, indifferent 14yo with a two minute attention span and a desire to be entertained.
{sigh}
It'd be a lot funnier if there weren't significant truth to it. I've mitigated the worst of this "ADD" method of teaching her literacy (and other things)-- by "blocking" things into larger amounts of time devoted to individual learning activities to encourage depth-- but the assessments are what they are, YK?
