A parent-activist gave the movie “Won’t Back Down” two thumbs down because, among other things, it oversimplifies the choices facing parents today. Most parents don’t want to turn their schools over to private operators. Instead, she argues, they want neighborhood schools to have smaller class sizes, more art, music and science, and less time spent on standardized tests.

The writer, who broke the story of the pineapple and the hare test question, believes that the state and federal education bureaucracy is becoming inextricably tangled with for-profit testing companies and thus deeply compromised. “Their testing obsession is undermining our schools, not only in this city, but nationally,” she writes.