Actually, all of us do, because through this overwrought culling, we’re teaching a generation of children values that stink. There are moral wages to the admissions mania, and we need to wrestle with those. “Parents are trying to give their kids ‘everything’ but they’re not giving them what counts,” he told me. He had heard about the just-revealed admissions scam, and it hardened his belief that the deck was stacked against kids like him. And the admissions madness leaves a dubious imprint on it.

Source: New York Times March 16, 2019 18:31 UTC