Kids today are way overworked. They have no energy to devote to important stuff, like gymnastics, dance lessons, vocal and acting training, skateboarding, video games, listening to music, blogging, Tweeting, Facebook, or just plain hanging out at the pizza place.
That’s not right.
How else is a little child to realize his or her full potential unless that child has some serious down time?
As parents, how often do you find yourself wondering: “I don’t remember having that much homework when I was in school.” I don’t either.
What are we trying to prove, anyway, with all this education? That we can keep up with China or India? Fat chance. Good luck. Let’s face facts: they’re just smarter, more committed, and more disciplined.
Plus, part of the new Immigration plan will include an intelligence threshold, for which any new immigrants cannot exceed. That’ll show ‘em. And then our kids won’t have so much pressure and will maybe be able to find a job.
What we do best, as a nation, is prepare our kids to be really involved with popular culture. What’s wrong with that?
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