The present system of testing in the UK is formalised child abuse ( kids really do show psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety, bed wetting etc) and kills curiosity.


More hyperbole
I live in the US and know healthy happy children thriving in the state schools in the UK. Why not concentrate on what is right and working rather than zero in on individual situations that are the problem.
Do you really mean that no one comes out of the UK school system emotionally happy and intellectually curious? No one reads a book after leaving school in the UK?
The system can be improved, no doubt but "formalized child abuse"? Maybe just a bit over the top?