Parent: Pushing very young children into rigorous study in an effort to make our nation more competitive does more harm than good. Curricula for these young students must address their special developmental needs, and while rigorous work in secondary school makes sense, the same approach in the early years of primary school produces only short-term gains and may cause young children to burn out on schoolwork. Using very young students as pawns in the race to make the nation economically competitive is unfair and may ultimately work against us. Which one of the following can be inferred from the parent's statements? ['A curriculum of rigorous study does not adequately address the developmental needs of primary school students.', 'Our country can be competitive only if the developmental needs of all our students can be met.', 'Unless our nation encourages more rigorous study in the early years of primary school, we cannot be economically competitive.', 'For our nation to be competitive, our secondary school curriculum must include more rigorous study than it now does.']