Standardized Testing

I really don't believe in standardized testing at all. I think that all it does is make the classroom structure too rigid. Teachers just end up having to make students memorize certain things and spit them back on a test. It also hinders students learning because they just memorize answers and not lern how to apply the material. I keep hoping that the CRTs will just die, but with the NO Child Left Behind, they just wont.