Is Traditional Education Really Preparing Our Kids For The Future? by Susan Rice-Lincoln
By Frank Drake
(Edina Realty)
I am an American living in France. I have one daughter who completed the incredibly rigorous French education system and is now attending one of America’s most prestigious Ivy League universities. My younger daughter currently attends an international-French school; she endures a 9 hour school plus two hours of homework every day 10 months out of the year.Apparently, I am not alone. I talk to many parents in the States and across the world with school age children who tell similar tales.We submit our children to grueling school schedules, ridiculous pressure to get them into ‘good’ schools. Once they are in university, the undue strain just continues. The cost to the children and society are tragic. Cornell University, for example, recently suffered the shocking heartbreak of several un...
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