If further proof is needed that the culture of testing and formally assessing young children in our education system needs to be reversed, then our news story on private tuition for toddlers (page 9) provides it. Parents of children as young as two, panicking about their offspring's performance in baseline assessment, SATs and independent school exams, are hiring tutors to help them make the grade. With so much of primary schools' efforts and time now directed towards shoring up their SATs league table positions, it is disturbing but not that surprising that parents feel formal learning has to be drilled...