>Ridgewood kids have been racing to nowhere long before the documentary

>Ridgewood kids have been racing to nowhere long before the documentary

Ridgewood kids have been racing to nowhere long before the documentary. The emphasis for resume building begins in ‘enrichment’. God forbid you call it pre-K in Ridgewood. Kids are guided into a plethora of programs and activities that we actually have to have a ‘holiday’ to do nothing.

If being athletic is good, then more is better, right? Ask baseball or soccer players about 3-season sports, club teams and personal trainers. Places like PBI and Parisi are virtual gold mines for all the local kids who are brianwashed into believing that they are the greatest players to ever walk onto the field.

Forget about teachers teaching kids being enough. We have tutors for every discipline, music instructors with Lincoln Center backgrounds and SAT prep programs bankrupting families because having the best is the only option.

I have regular, happy and and reasonably well-adjusted kids. They have friends who started in therapy while still in single digits and pre-teen years because of stress and anxiety problems. And for this, we are shelling out 18k per student.

We might show them more compassion by putting them in lock-up at juvi.

The pointy heads at Cottage Place should be focusing on a good educational experience for ALL kids and not just an excellent experience for some.