[AnotherUnixGeek]

"I felt my child was doing quite fine in school," said Clipston, a chemist with three children, noting that her daughter's schoolday in the highly competitive Lower Merion School District was 61/2 hours, with a 20-minute recess."

Students in Asian nations look at that and laugh. Helicopter parents and their whiny, entitled kids don't bode well for the future in the US, not in the competitive world ahead.

[Patriotic1]

But it’s 1st grade.