Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School – "Race to Nowhere"

It isn’t often that a third of a movie audience sticks around to discuss its message, but that is the effect of "Race to Nowhere," http://www.racetonowhere.com/ a look at the downside of childhoods spent on résumé-building.

"How do you help your children balance when the whole education system is pushing, pushing, pushing, and you want your kids to be successful?" Alethea Lewis, a mother of two, asked a roomful of concerned parents who had just seen the film, a documentary, last week in Bronxville, N.Y., at a screening co-sponsored by the private Chapel School.

With no advertising and little news media attention, "Race to Nowhere" has become a must-see movie in communities where the kindergarten-to-Harvard steeplechase is most competitive.

By TRIP GABRIEL

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/education/09nowhere.html?hpw