KChristieH

Today’s two favorite articles form bookends to each other.

First, we learn about how competitive it is to get your kid into a Manhattan preschool in the NYTimes’ In Baby Boomlet, Preschool Derby Is the Fiercest Yet. Of course it’s worth the $10,000 and the headache, because after all, if you don’t get into a good preschool, you won’t get into a good elementary school, etc. etc.

Next we have Reuters’ Most U.S. high school dropouts regretful - study. What’s interesting isn’t that most dropouts are regretful - duh! - but that the reason most dropped out was that they were b-o-r-e-d. I often tell my kids that even if school is boring, they need to stick with it. There are many things we need to do in life that are boring, but we still need to do them. On the other hand, some teachers do a great job at making even the most mundane subjects exciting to learn. Too bad the rest don’t.

Too bad high school isn’t as much fun as preschool was…