Department of Education official rips standardized testing, tells students to skip school

'The newly minted DOE executive also advocates for home schooling, saying people she knows who were taught at home “seemed to be really smart, passionate, successful and satisfied with their lives. All that and they never had to be tortured in an algebra, history, science or English class!”'

The same information in a far less sensational format, the author's own words:
The Innovative Educator: Why Innovative Educators Should Care About Unschooling
"Unschooling shattered every myth I held to be true and made me question everything I’d been taught about learning."