When I heard, about fifteen years ago, that colleges were looking at kids' transcripts all the way back to FIFTH GRADE... I was appalled.
The stress begins to mount earlier and earlier, and NO ONE suggests that there's something BADLY broken in a system that won't allow a ten-year-old to stay home alone for half an hour, BUT expects them to be actively WORKING toward college admission requirements.
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dancing_serpent
Stressed middle schoolers
Date: 2018-05-01 11:33 pm (UTC)The stress begins to mount earlier and earlier, and NO ONE suggests that there's something BADLY broken in a system that won't allow a ten-year-old to stay home alone for half an hour, BUT expects them to be actively WORKING toward college admission requirements.
Some days, I think the whole world is crazy.
It's nice to see a moment of sanity.