Poignantly, we can now see that these unhealthy but widespread practices at competitive schools around the world seem to serve a very important function: to protect the schools and the adults who work there. Caught in an intense predicament between the parents, on the one hand, whose demand for these schools only increases, and the selective colleges, on the other hand, that rely on these schools for high-quality applicants, we have had to develop a complex set of self-protective practices to keep our schools in business.
The reason why
