After School Tutoring Is a Big Business

The biggest impact seems to be on families that are the wealthiest and most educated. The suburban paranoia over state tests has ballooned the tutoring business into a four billion dollar industry, and not just for school age children. Just as they've hired life coaches for themselves, helicopter parents are hiring college councillors for their children - costing between three thousand and six thousand dollars. All of this provokes psychologist wendy mogul to suggest these parents may some day be on the receiving end of a class action suit from their children for stealing their childhoods. And well, meet them later in the book, along with a father who read to his daughter just for fun for three thousand 218 nights in a row