The error in how we value our children

This error is easily fixed.

Here's how we publicly and offically value our learners from age 3 to 5:

By teacher assessment of their
attitudes and dispositions; 
emotional development;
social development;
communication, language, literacy
problem solving, reasoning, numeracy
knowledge of the world
Physical development
creative development

Here's how we publicly and officially value our learners aged 11:

By written tests and teacher assessment of their
Literacy
Numeracy

Here's how we publicly and officially value our learners aged 16:

By written exam and controlled coursework of a string of imposed and chosen subjects

Here's how we publicly and officially value our learners in the world of work:
By employer appraisal against job-specific criteria

EYFS have got it right. The foundation stage profile should progress right through a learner's life. Emotional development doesn't stop. Creative development always grows. Knowledge of the world expands and diversifies into the humanities.

Each thread of the EYFS profile weaves itself into the cloth that becomes a worthwhile and valuable human being. Let the cloth grow. Don't cut it off to make a nice pair of curtains.