I firmly believe in
I firmly believe in parents’ rights to educate their children as they see fit but this seems extreme. Tutoring Gives Pupils an Edge . . . for Preschool
“Nonremedial tutoring for children entering school is a relatively new phenomenon,” said Arthur Levine, the president of Teachers College at Columbia University, “but like every type of tutoring, it is growing. Anything parents can do to give their children an edge, they are interested in.”
But such tutoring elicits sharp divisions on the questions of whether it is effective or appropriate. One side contends it is no different from sending a child to a gymnastics class to learn to do a handspring, and at the very least can do no harm. The other side sees it as emblematic of a society that seems to be putting undue pressure on children even as it farms out parental duties.
Count me in the latter category.