To the Point
Students and the Pressure to Perform
As college application deadlines loom, parents, educators and mental health professionals are asking if the amped up pressure on kids to get into elite schools has pushed students to the breaking point.
The amped up race to get kids into elite colleges is sending some kids to emergency rooms with panic attacks, and worse... is academic pressure pushing teenagers to the breaking point. Guest host Barbara Bogaev asks what can be done about it.
Later on the program, more than 70 years after the end of World War II, the long awaited reparations for the Comfort Women.