Anne Michaud, Long Island Newsday: A woman I had just met was so upset that she began to confide in me about her high school daughter. The girl had burst into tears when she got a 92 on a test, and she was concerned that if she didn’t attend a summer study program, she wouldn’t be able to compete with her peers for college admission.
“Why are kids so anxious now?” the mom asked. “Was life such a treadmill when we were young?”
This family lives in one of Long Island’s better public school districts — with plenty of academic pressure — but these questions are …
