Accelerated

Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son, Toby, on the marble steps that lead into the prestigious Bradley School. Everything at Bradley is acceleratedthird graders read at the sixth grade levels, they have labs and facilities to rival a university, and the chess champions are the bullies. A single dad and struggling artist, Sean sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the power-soccer-mom cliques and ladies who lunch who congregate at the steps every afternoon. But at least Toby is thriving and getting the best education money can buy. Or is he? When Sea starts getting pressure from the school to put Toby on medication for ADD, something smells fishy, and it isnt the caviar that was served at last weeks PTA meeting. Tobys issues in school seem, to Sean, to be nothing more than normal behavior for an eight-year-old boy. But maybe Sean just isnt seeing things clearly, which has been hard to do since Tobys new teacher, Jess, started at Bradley. And the school has Tobys best interests at heart, right? But what happens when the pressure to not just keep up, but to exceed, takes hold? When things take a tragic turn, Sean realizes that the price of this accelerated life is higher than he could have ever imagined.