Where Politics And Video Games Collide

Although I understand that hard work during school hours is important, the situation with homework really is getting ridiculous. Nearly ten years ago when I was at school, I got (on average) an hour of study a night.. these days it can be two, three, maybe even four hours per night. When do kids just get to relax?

People like Obama are parading around the view that our children should be studying more and more, and playing less and less.. unless your child is a straight A honour roll student who goes to a big college or university, they are a worthless waste of space. Unless you are working in big business, law, or some other high powered academic profession you are a failure. Unless you spend a huge amount of your time working, you fail at life.

The school systems in many countries, by and large, cater only to academic pursuits. Where are we teaching students to be good engineers, or trash collectors, or all those other mundane jobs that we look down on people for doing? Where are we teaching people that, you know what, its okay to not be so academically inclined?

For the most part, we do not teach people these things.. we teach them that if they don't study hard, get good grades, go to good schools, they have failed themselves, their parents, their society.. anything less than B is a terrible thing, we don't have any room for someone who isn't so good at Maths or English in our society any more.