<p>“… that either puts them behind or requires them to lug a ton of books and work along.”</p>
<p>Well yeah. But when your kid’s near the top of the class, at the top of the testing scale, and is B-O-R-E-D to tears at the snail’s pace of teaching … ‘No child left behind’ means no more ‘college prep track’ in public high schools … then a little time off for cultural development isn’t a bad thing IMHO.</p>