I just finished reading
The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overburdening Parents and Solve Our Inequality Crisis by Nate Hilger. A few years ago, Nate was a student at Harvard, which I didn’t know much about, and he was kind enough to send me a copy. I can say it is terrific – intelligently argued and very well written. The basic theme is that society needs to do more to help children learn skills outside of the normal school day.
I hesitated at the last chapter, which seems to suggest that if you disagree with the previous arguments, you are either ignorant or racist. Sure, Nate says it more diplomatically than I just did, but that’s what I took away. Before that, however, the book appealed to me and was largely persuasive. It deserves to be widely read.
