It's already happening in America.
http://www.helium.com/items/1078216-school-sports-day-traditional-vs-political-correctness
This also:
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/4-30-2005-69355.asp
Essentially a series of small vignettes, the writer chronicles the cases of multiple students overstressed, over-scheduled, and ultimately unable to fulfill the lofty weight placed upon their shoulders. Many dropped out of school completely, switched to different institutions, developed eating disorders, experienced rampant cheating, stimulant abuse, depression or in the case of one adorable thirteen year old over-achiever to whom the film was dedicated, committed suicide after failing a math test.
Interspersed within the vignettes were comments from educators, psychologists, and parents, talking about ways to try to refocus on bringing students back to a simpler time, when homework did not take 4 hours a night, when kids were allowed to be kids and explore, and spend their after school time playing unstructured activities in the park. The teachers in the film talked about their frustration with an inability to allow kids to dream and explore, because of the pressure of performance and standardized testing, and in the case of one teacher interviewed, driving her to quit the profession she loved.
http://shrewsbury.net/?p=10671I see a lot of these students in my area of the world -- parents push them to the absolute max daily. That said, the rest of the article puts it in perspective.
While I live in MA I can assure you that the kids in our districts do not have their hands held. They are pushed by the district, their sports coaches and their parents from an extremely young age.
PC may be happening, but not to the point where it is effecting these student's capacity to thrive in the real world.
ETA: I am referring to the suburbs and not urban areas. Two parent homes primarily.
