<p>CoutingDown, That was my take as well. Hold on, Laserbrother, it’s going to be a bumpy ride, and methinks there will be a very unexpected landing.</p>
<p>I go back and forth about the ■■■■■ thing. I’d lean towards the toll except I’ve had too many parents just like LB contact me directly. One mother called me wanting me to give her son “practice essay prompts” because she was going to make him practice writing college essays for “an hour or two a day, every day” over the summer. She also told me that she saw this enforced practice as his “ticket to Stanford.”</p>
<p>Something didn’t smell right, so I asked her what grade her son was in.</p>
<p>SIXTH grade! He was 11!! </p>
<p>When I suggested that he really couldn’t start writing his college essays yet because he hadn’t yet experienced anything to write about, she got very upset with me. Told me that I was a BAD college counselor. :LOL:</p>
<p>So, while there are plenty of tolls lurking, there are also plenty of parents who sadly really do buy into LB’s line of thinking.</p>