NYC’s high school wars: Helicopter parenting hits a new peak
“School choice” in New York has birthed a bizarre system that rewards parental madness and reinforces inequality
By ANDREW O'HEHIR
I spent eight hours trapped with hundreds of other parents in the prison-like cafeteria at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School — that’s the performing arts school from “Fame” — while my daughter auditioned for a spot in their drama program. (Hey, she got a call-back.) We waited in a four-block-long line for 90 minutes to get into a brief presentation at a former groovy-lefty alternative school that is now — this is not so much ironic as inevitable — intensely competitive and desirable. My son and I tried to visit a tiny math-and-science target school in Harlem (which features, I kid you not, mandatory German) and found ourselves in a mob scene perhaps five times the size of the school’s entire student population. But there was one small moment, in itself neither controversial nor alarming, that summed up this whole strange experience.
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/09/nycs-high-school-wars-helicopter-parenting-hits-a-new-peak/?source=newsletter
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