Madeline Levine the author of the book “The Price of Privilege” came to my school and sis a talk for the faculty. She a great number of things and all of them made sense. It was the first meeting at my school that I really enjoyed. Below are some of the points that I remember from her talk.
A.P. classes are not a great idea because the put far to much attention on “Passing a test” rather then learning content. Kids are great performers and will do what they need to in order to pass a test. In the end they don’t really learn.
Let your kid fail. Unless you kid feels the sting of a failure they will not know how to deal with it. Parents are swooping in to save the day and make sure that all goes well with school. (Kids in my school call home for the parents to bring something they forgot like homework, projects, sports bags or anything ells they should have remembered) Learn to fail or fail to learn.
A kid’s world should look very different than an adult’s world. We are asking kids to live and function as adults but they are not adults physically or mentally.
Don’t project your image of what your kid should be… Get to know your kid instead. Parents are molding and prepping kids into an image of success they have planned out for them.

The great thing about her talk was that she essentially called the administrators and parents of the district a bunch of misguided idiots. The community I work in has been going down this path of over privilege for generations. It was nice to see a voice of reason be heard.