Madness on nursery admissions

[sieglinde]

Might not work if you don't subscribe - gist is a mother is suing a nursery school because by not advancing her four-year-old enough she - the four-year-old - will be denied admission to an Ivy League university in 15 years' time...

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article2947571.ece

Believe it or not, some countries other than the UK (I think it exists heavily there too btw) have a great pressure at an early age to establish a kind of academic kudos - the perfect CV of school attendance, grades, extra-curricular accomplishments. Its sad, but its true.

This situation you note is just a by-product of that.

Yes, but it's just so stoooopid. Actually nobody in the Ivy League even cares.