When Too Much Is Not Enough

In a school district ranked second in California, with an API score of 933, the kids at LCUSD are no slouches. Neither is number one, neighboring San Marino Unified School District with 949, just shy of 51 points for that elusive perfect score.

La Cañada kids take AP calculus and AP physics; their engineering club is headed to Atlanta for a robotics championship; there's a chamber orchestra; visual arts and, of course, the indefatigable boys basketball team, which is playing for a spot in finals history this Saturday.

Jammed into those multi-colored, sticky-noted and highlighted calendars might just be community service, driver's ed, part-time work and, if they're really super lucky, a few left over hours in a week to chill with their family and pet the cat.

When you are the product of several national blue ribbon schools, with USC as hopeful a higher- ed option as MIT or Harvard, when does too much become not enough?

So, Moms, when is advanced placement, advancement overload? Are parents (and kids) overbooking kids?