Hyper Active Lives

Hyper-Active Lives Parental involvement with a child’s education is a topic of great controversy in America today. Should a parent take the reigns and closely overlook their child’s life, or should children be left their space for independent thought and individuality? This question persistently pesters parents in the US and all over the world. In Making the Grade, an essay by James Atlas, Atlas attempts to answer the question of parental involvement by …

…Atlas also doesn’t think that he way he was raised was perfect, he writes,” I can’t pretend that the family gathered around our dinner table and passing the meat loaf was ideal”(134). The essay seems to start our focused on supporting modern education, however, this argument is heavily weakened by the time the essay is done, leaving the reader questioning not only point the essay is arguing, but also what Atlas really believes.