American journalist Lenore Skenazy writes about the problems of overparenting with a particular emphasis on risk, but also what she sees as unnecessary extra cramming classes.
Robbins chose Whitman because "in the mid-1990s, in many ways Alexandra Robbins was these students, rushing through the same hallways, cramming anxiously for tests in the same classrooms, battling rivals on the same varsity fields." Whitman is also one of the best public schools in the nation and is located in Bethesda, Maryland.