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Child Abusers: Insisting Children Entering Kindergarten Need an Edge

Sophie Spencer, 5 and headed to kindergarten in the fall, has a tutor. . . .

Aiming to give their young children a jump-start on their academic experience, parents are having them work with private tutors. The goal is to have the children enter school with a toehold on reading.

"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. . . ."

"Once upon a time, parents prepared their children for the best university," he said. "Now they prepare them for the best preschool. . . ."

Ohanian Comment: There is nothing one can say about this assault on childhood. Just as a point of information, when pulling up this article online, I was hit by a blinking ad from Kaplan: Get the Score you need. Take Kaplan. Score higher. This fits with the NY Times slogan "all the news that's fit to print--supported, bolstered, and enhanced by its advertisers.

Surely the placement of this ad was accidental/coincidental.

Surely this article wasn't driven by advertising potential.

Surely nobody solicited Kaplan advertising as the article was being written.

Surely not.

— Marek Fuchs
Tutoring Gives Pupils an Edge. . .for Preschool
New York Times
August 1, 2002
http://nytimes.com/2002/07/31/education/31TUTO.html

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