I hear you. But I guess I wasn't thinking of shifting the burden, so much as adding another way to figure it out to what's already there. I don't see schools stopping the process. But more pre-screening to help clueless parents (speaking as one who was!) seems like a good idea, failing systems or no...
I get the sense that you're thinking of something way more extensive than what I'm thinking of. All it would take is a sheet with checkboxes, much as they already use to detect delays. That doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
Of course, I've never had someone use the wrong checklist with my child...
