From MN home page:
A survey of teachers by TES showed 89% are in favour of stopping SATS, and a survey of parents on Mumsnet showed 68% agreeing that the controversial tests should be scrapped. But 56% of the school children surveyed by children’s newspaper First News thought that CHATS should not be stopped.
As pupils, parents and teachers across England unwind after months of work focused on the Year 6 tests - and with reports that they were particularly challenging this year - it seems that children are more accepting of the testing regime than the adults around them.
Nicky Cox MBE, Editor at First News, said: "Our survey shows that children are more capable of taking things in their stride than the adults around them sometimes think."
Justine Roberts, Mumsnet Founder, said: "Parents on Mumsnet are, on the whole, worried that SATS cause stress and a narrowing of horizons. They understand the need for schools to be benchmarked and pupils’ progress measured, but they’re not convinced the current regime is the best way. That children disagree is both reassuring and no surprise - we’re used to our kids endlessly contradicting us."
DD got a little bored with the tests by Weekday evening, which I found reasuring as I took it to mean they hadn't just been doing endless test papers in school, but they had actually been taught.
She mentioned to me on Thursday evening they had one more paper to do on Friday. I was 
but she said it was science, and she was a bit worried she hadn't paid attention in the science lessons. -She will have paid attention, but it won't have been drummed in to her like Maths and English.
Anyway, come Friday morning, and indeed she was confronted with yet another paper. All children were sat down, ready to take yet another test. They all took it in their stride, as their teachers have spent two years preparing them properly. They turned over the first page and answered the first question......it was their end of year show script. Which part would they like to audition for? DD is going for a main part heaven help us and then they had a party.
I'm under no illusion my dyslexic DD with a working memory below the 1st percentile will "meet expectations". We will look intensively at one word a day from the Y6 spelling list over the summer in the hope that she retains some of them.
She will be going to a small high school where the teachers will know she is the sibling of her very able brother, and that combined with our post code and her dyslexia diagnosis (rare in these parts) will mean they keep a close eye on her progress.
But for DD could I care what her SATs results are? No. For the school do I care? Yes. Because the school took DS1 when no other school wanted him (he repaid them with very good SATs results in Y6). Because the school pushed DS2 to achieve his absolute maximum, and got the best out of him. Because the school have cherished DD even though she has had her struggles academically, they have never given up on her.
Yes SATs are pants. But I consider them the price of a free education (along with much of DHs tax).
For the parents fretting and saying the tests have been too hard....consider all those DC for whom they were always going to be too hard. No level 3 for the child who was a level 1 in Y. like my DD.....it was always going to be a great big "NOT MET EXPECTATIONS" So Welcome to the club. I knew this was coming and was able to build up my DCs self confidence in other areas. I'm sorry if you didn't and weren't, but if your child could actually recall any part of any paper of the past week and tell it to you (as seen in this thread) , my guess is they did OK.