Ridiculous

This article, and the girl's mother, is absolutely crazy. First of all, who pays $19K a year to send their kid to PRESCHOOL? Rich people these days... But seriously, the girl is 4 years old and quite honestly should not have pressure on her to do well in school quite yet. It is preschool after all. I have never heard of any preschoolers working on test prep to get into an ELEMENTARY school. Seriously, I do not know how schools can test a child's intelligence at that young of an age anyway because they have had virtually no schooling other than what they learn at home. If the preschool was telling the mom that they could prepare her daughters for standardized tests, I do agree that was a scam. But honestly, when the school promised "age-appropriate curriculum" what did the mom think that was? Calculus and quantum physics? While learning shapes and colors may be a little basic for a four year old (I may be wrong, can't really remember what was "basic" when I was four :D ), it is preschool for crying out loud, where kids ARE dumped together regardless of their age (and ok what 2 year old goes to preschool?! Jeesh...) and where kids ARE taught basic knowledge so they have a good foundation for later on. The girl has her whole life to get into an Ivy League school, so this mother should realize that her daughter is just fine educationally and just drop the lawsuit (and the way-too-expensive school too...). I may not be a mom, but I do know this: the girl's mother should enjoy just spending time with her young child. That is really the most important thing to worry about when your child is four. She should steer her child to do well academically and can put her into a good school later on if she wants, but should also let her daughter have a choice. What if she doesn't want to go to an Ivy League school? Plain and simple, the daughter does not know what she wants at the age of four, so the mom needs to back off on the pressure she puts on her child and on the ridiculous lawsuit she is filing.