interesting Tweet of THE Morning

[Efilroft Sul]

52. That comment on 7 hours of school for kids followed by 7 hours of homework is telling.

Even before COVID hit last year, there was no way in hell my kids could find time to participate in all these extracurricular activities our district likes to promote. The amount of homework they've been subjected to since elementary school is outright abusive. My wife and I are much older than most parents (mid 50s), and we didn't grow up with having every waking moment of our evenings and weekends sucked away by busy work for the sake of busy work. The other parents appear to be Millennials who must've grown up with this kind of madness and think it's normal, hence there has never been a sizable parental backlash to homework.

What's really sad is that every graduating high school class that has come up through this abusive curriculum is told, "You kids can change the world!" But clearly, those who have gone on to become curriculum specialists haven't changed it for the better. When kids constantly check their emails like neurotic adults check their work emails while on vacation, something is wrong. It, as the Twitter post said above, is bullshit.