The trend toward acceleration in education is happening across the country.
And third-grader Marina Phillips is proud that she is doing fifth-grade math, but it means that she and her mother put in a minimum of 90 minutes every night, plowing through the extra work. Scott Luxenberg, an eighth-grader who usually makes B’s or better in school, has been tutored in writing for more than a year because his parents think he can do better. I don’t know whether to tell her it’s OK, she doesn’t have to do it, or to sit down with her.” “My child cries night after night because she can’t do her homework,” says Beth Orton. Are Stepped-Up Expectations Too Much of a Good Thing?
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