I would love to see the effects these academic changes had on mental health and stress levels. Less risky behaviour is important, but not at the expense of mental health or time for positive socializing.
Our city decided to change it from school starting at 8 to 6, thinking it would be helpful for the kids. It actually turned into a nightmare for parents, ended up causing a bunch of car accidents because sleepy parents were falling asleep behind the wheel, the kids were just not going to school until later anyway because parents couldn't do it, and bus drivers almost rioted. Everyone was on board until it was actually implemented and it got corrected TWO weeks after the beginning of the school year. It was champion'd as a way to 'get kids into a better sleeping rhythm and reduce crime since all those kids will be sleepy by eight!' the problem is we had no crime and probably would have reduced grades and put them into worst socio-economic positions later on making crime more relevant.
I graduated from high school just a few years ago and I've got to say, increasing the amount of work given to students is not necessary. Let kids be kids
My kid has the bad habit of getting ~2hrs of sleep per night in order to keep up with homework. I can't force her to go to bed cause then I'm forcing her to get F's. She has issues with depression and anxiety related to school work. I'd rather have her happy and smoke a joint every now and again. I really hope, in her last year of High School coming up, they don't grab a hold of these findings and try to shove more work on her. Especially since her school is full of teachers who don't teach; she spends most of her time voice conferencing with friends and using Google to get her assignments done.
If your kid needs to limit her sleep to 2 hours a night just to get schoolwork done, then these issues go beyond what the curriculum of the school is responsible for. Does your kid attend school in Korea?
Nope, US. 6/7 of her classes are AP classes. She can't get away with sleeping at school, but it seems she may as well be because the teachers just go "Here's the assignment" and then either read something the kids have access to out loud without any discussion (e.g. actually teach), or just sit behind their desks. Some of them aren't even using focused cirriculum, one in a previous year was just pulling crap off of Wolfram Alpha for all of their lessons and tests, which once the kids figured out they just went there for homework answers. Once she gets home she normally takes a small nap cause she just can't stay up anymore, about ~1.5-2 hours, eats dinner, then begins the rounds of trying to learn from her friends over the phone/Skype, or teaching them if it's something she knows better than they do. She has to be up at 6:20am every day and sometimes doesn't get to bed until around 4:00-4:30. We live in West Virginia. Some of the teachers are great. Others put in as much effort as is reflected in their (lack of) pay. I tried to suggest she take less rigorous courses, but she says they'd take just as much time then not look as good on college apps, cause the general studies teachers do the same thing. My kid doesn't do drugs. I know cause I said if she was really interested I'd hop over and get some from DC where it was legal and she could try it at the house. She's drank at the house a few times but isn't particularly excited by it. She decides to just tweak out over her stress rather than escape it, which is just like.. the luck of her psyche profile. Maybe her lack of time to wonder about drugs has something to do with her apathy towards them, maybe it's just a coincidence. Either way, I'd rather have them not dump a ridiculous ton of directionless busy work on her, especially if it comes from a "keep 'em busy to keep 'em off drugs" mentality, and have her enjoy a little herb on the weekends. Sadly it is not up to me.
You don't need to take 7 AP courses to get into college. If she needs to work 22 hours a day to fulfill their workload, she probably won't succeed at whatever top-tier school she might get into anyway. I know because that's what happened to me. I had to come to grips to the fact that taking easier classes and going to an average college doesn't make you a lesser person. Better grades/more prestige/higher income aren't worth the risk to your health that that level of overworking yourself incurs. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
Ah, yes. You do not want your kids doing drugs or alcohol or hanging out with the wrong crowd but too much homework is excessive and stifling. Maybe the trick is keeping your kid busy with non-school things like a sport (whether solo or team) and/or involved with one of the arts (music-singing or playing an instrument, theatre-dance or drama, art-drawing or painting or sculpting or cinematography). There is also after school jobs or volunteering. Keep them busy but NOT necessarily with school work. I mean, I hate our low standing in international educational testing but I am also glad that we do not have those horrific teen suicide rates that South Korea and Japan have.
I suffer depression and anxiety. Talk to a doctor sleep helps, and if school work is too demanding then talk to her teachers I'm sure ur doing ur best but, from my experience, these things might.help
I went to an all STEM college and most of the people I knew there partied a lot in high school, partied in college, and are continuing to party in grad school. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but harder courses don't necessarily stop that kind of behavior.
The STEM high school in the area is the same way. It's thought of as prestigious and not saying it's not, but there's plenty of trouble that goes around anyway.
How about school selection? Did the paper account for that? Because you're more likely to see more hard working student in better schools, and better schools are usually the one to provide harder courses. That might be another reason for the discrepancy.
Island had common up with a comprehensive approach including vouchers for sport activities (500€/ $600 a year) and promoting evening meals with all familie members.
Sacrifice mental health by increasing stress and taking away leisure time can't be good in the long run. Sure higher pressure will probably reduce substance use short term, but long term the students will find that alcohol can ease stress...
Great information as always. Can you look to see if the increased demands might also have correlations with anxiety, depression, or other mental illnesses?
Side note, I am not smart enough to know how the balancing of skin tone, make up, and lighting result into what we see on the video, but this episode was well done. Sometimes it can come through patchy or splotchy.
i can trace exactly what kept me away from drugs, not alcohol so much. Had a pretty heavy load at school but one thing my Catholic High School did - a few months before we were to start our Freshman year they sent us to orientation. During that time we were handed a bag full of books, memorable books included Brave New World, A Kiss Before Dying, Black Like Me, 1984, etc. And then in 1978 I got my first computer. That was the end of it. And during my freshman year my mom passed away from metastatic breast cancer. She'd smoked since she was a teenager. So that put the kibosh on that too.
While i feel like everything you presented in the video was true, I feel as if it has the opposite effect when you get to College. When the courses become more rigorous and become more involved in school I feel as if students are more involved in Risky Behavior to cope with the fact that they are so busy. I have so many friends that are completely different majors and have different course loads, but I noticed that the ones with heavier loads between school work internship and classes are more likely to do drugs. They're are more likely to binge drink at a frat party. They're more likely to do the adderal the week of midterms to help them study for their test. I'm not going to lie after finals week we are going to drink more than usual to de-stress from the crazy week we just had. Now my friends are more Health Science majors and we are aware of the different behaviors and what considered risky and what's not, but that is not enough to keep them from engaging in Risky Behavior.
LOL, Drinking an excessive amount of alcohol to "de-stress", sounds like an oxymoron to me. Granted I do not understand the thrill in being drunk off your a**. But I do like to chill with a little neat bourbon, whiskey, or rum on occasion, just one of course. So please, drink responsibly and have a blast!!
Nothing wrong with trouble in itself. It's the kinds of troubles that should be considered, and just how much they are getting into it. Let the kids burn themselves, so long as they don't catch on fire. Let them understand the meaning of pain, don't shelter them from it or deprive them of any capacity for independent thought. Do not raise them to be blindly loyal and constantly seek assistance from the larger body, especially from corporations seeking only to fatten themselves up and spread their influence. I don't want to see any kids being raised to be mindless consumers, or sent to foreign lands as soldiers to spread the influence of an empire that cares only for its numbers and not its contentment.
i have a question if you are peeing blood and pooping out blood and being told that you are lying about it and that you dont have parasites and cant drive will i survive until sept 4th because i need to know that if you have any questions i think you know who to contact i am just being watched even worse then the NSA watches over me i miss marcs drones i guess with this sn ha bisky isnt needed
Wouldn't more affluent areas have higher graduation requirements? A lot of other social changes have occurred during the same time as graduation requirements changes.
Studies are great and all, but how about actually asking people when and why they drank/smoked to understand the actual causes. For myself as an example, I only drank during summer vacation, because that is when there were longer periods of time to hangout with friends and safely consume. This would support study linking longer time in school with lower consumption.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Studying the relationship between the amount of time in school and the rates of various risky behaviors would certainly be worthwhile, but doing a study on that doesn't mean just asking some kids when and why they drink.
Sure, but contextual data is more powerful than simple data. The more information you can gather the better, and for this topic open-ended questions like when and why you drink could provide a lot of useful insight into drinking habits than simply crunching the numbers on the easily computable data.
Again this is garbage metrics. Work camps have a near 100% reduction in alcohol consumption. Doesn't mean that it's justified to force kids into things like that. Get them on a career path that they want instead!
I didn't say that they were the same. I'm also not aware of a "war on learning." I'm merely pointing out the futility of trying to shove a ton of money and authoritarian solutions at kids that have no need or interest in the things that you're trying to push at them. Some never take any interest in learning, many won't retain the information in the long-term, most won't use the information in their day to day lives, and all of this leaves out the opportunity cost of their time!
What does homework have to do with learning? All homework ever was for me was tedious labor. I had no problems with passing tests by just paying attention in class.
Too damn funny, if your kid is binge drinking, you already screwed something up and probably should spend more time together, rather then out freaking sourcing supervision. Happy rats don't do drugs.
This is stupid! Just look at data from home schooled kids. What kids need isn't tons of school work! They need to have a great relationship with their family and spend time with them. They need to have things they are passionate about and spend time doing those. Those things will lead to great careers in the future. They need to find themselves before peer pressure pulls them into bad paths. How do they find themselves? Watch this ruclips.net/video/UlMkWJY5T_w/видео.html Be a good parent and you don't need school.
Also, you're the one who keeps saying "correlation doesn't mean causation". What if those kids who enrolled in more demanding courses came from better families? It's just too many things to consider. But what I know is small children spend WAY too much time away from their parents, being oriented by OTHER KIDS (who have no maturity to do so) and teachers who only care about their salary. When you are thrown into the lions too young you're forced to become like them to survive. Kids in school don't care about learning or how it's going to lead into a career. They're merely surviving in an environment full of bullying and disconnection. We weren't made to be raised like this. It takes a village (of adults) to raise a child, that's how it's always been until the modern times and that's why you now have problems that didn't exist before.
OO great thing instead of exposing them to the shit and the good and letting them decide just have em do stupid mindless activities prethought for them so that they get to be kids forever
I think they turn to drugs because they lack a purpose, a goal, something to work towards. You can't provide people with a sense of purpose by endless hours of pointless homework and shitty booooring afterschool's children sould be truly free in setting their objectives and helped in achieving them, you cant make up an objective and have em do what ever you want because all their innate drive will get crushed and then ADHD happens
It's easy to impose tedious tasks on others specially if they can't complain because they don't know any better but the easy solution tends to be the worst
ihartevil what is proven to not be true? And how exactly?, private schools are objectivley better, and what finland does is to not pump their children with 10 hours a day of work and let them be free, this video is arguing the opposite
ihartevil and why exactly do ALL SCHOOLS HAVE TO BE PUBLIC? Since when does the public sector do ANYTHING better than the private sector??? Why is it good to give the monopoly of indoctination to the state? Thats how nazis happen
I am trying but i really don't understand you're point. Do you realize public schools and private schools do not compete for funding? actually since people who go to private schools pay taxes + the tuition fee they are actually contributing more to public schools than the average person. The whole idea behind text books i think is bullshit because it's two or three people telling their version of reality. I am happy to explore the many links you have demonstrating better performance of public schools over private schools when equally funded but you haven't posted any.
i am sorry i usually really like what you do, but i can't really agree with this video. you say a very generic sentence somthing like "we need to reduce risky behavior early in life because habits that establish in youth often persist into adulthood." but by putting it here in that video you are saying that people who drink (smoke etc.) at high school (age) are more likely to establish a drinking (smoking etc.) habit into adult hood. and i would like to see the research to back that up! also in this video you are implying that every drink of alcohol or consume of other drugs is bad, always. i am sorry but that is a little like teaching sex abstinence to a 16 year old couple... sooner or later it will happen and you better have them educated and they better think you are a person who they trust and to whom they would tell it. instead of trying to keep every high schooler away from drugs always (and forever) we should have them know how to drink responsibly what the dangers are and that they can come to us if they have questions and/or problems.
Have you ever heard of Bryan Caplan's book "The Case Against Education"? There is really no evidence that people retain what they are taught in schools or that schools seriously influence kids developmentally. It's an excellent book that makes a good case for abolishing or at least severely slashing school funding.
Most kids grow up into adults who couldn't remember calculus if you put guns to their heads. Hell, despite a decade of social studies classes in schools, 2/3 of US adults can't name the 3 branches of the federal government, and over 70% can't pass the US citizenship test.
Dude, I taught myself calculus from Khan Academy and Calculus For Dummies. We don't need to spend hundreds of billions per year on schools to teach people calculus.
I would love to see the effects these academic changes had on mental health and stress levels. Less risky behaviour is important, but not at the expense of mental health or time for positive socializing.
My thoughts exactly. Though a longer school year and later start times are actually good too.
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Our city decided to change it from school starting at 8 to 6, thinking it would be helpful for the kids.
It actually turned into a nightmare for parents, ended up causing a bunch of car accidents because sleepy parents were falling asleep behind the wheel, the kids were just not going to school until later anyway because parents couldn't do it, and bus drivers almost rioted.
Everyone was on board until it was actually implemented and it got corrected TWO weeks after the beginning of the school year. It was champion'd as a way to 'get kids into a better sleeping rhythm and reduce crime since all those kids will be sleepy by eight!' the problem is we had no crime and probably would have reduced grades and put them into worst socio-economic positions later on making crime more relevant.
Wonderful point!
I graduated from high school just a few years ago and I've got to say, increasing the amount of work given to students is not necessary. Let kids be kids
I keep my kids out of trouble by not having any. So far so good!
Kids or trouble?
We need a well designed study to find out whether this is correlation or causation.
My kid has the bad habit of getting ~2hrs of sleep per night in order to keep up with homework. I can't force her to go to bed cause then I'm forcing her to get F's. She has issues with depression and anxiety related to school work.
I'd rather have her happy and smoke a joint every now and again. I really hope, in her last year of High School coming up, they don't grab a hold of these findings and try to shove more work on her. Especially since her school is full of teachers who don't teach; she spends most of her time voice conferencing with friends and using Google to get her assignments done.
If your kid needs to limit her sleep to 2 hours a night just to get schoolwork done, then these issues go beyond what the curriculum of the school is responsible for. Does your kid attend school in Korea?
Nope, US. 6/7 of her classes are AP classes. She can't get away with sleeping at school, but it seems she may as well be because the teachers just go "Here's the assignment" and then either read something the kids have access to out loud without any discussion (e.g. actually teach), or just sit behind their desks. Some of them aren't even using focused cirriculum, one in a previous year was just pulling crap off of Wolfram Alpha for all of their lessons and tests, which once the kids figured out they just went there for homework answers. Once she gets home she normally takes a small nap cause she just can't stay up anymore, about ~1.5-2 hours, eats dinner, then begins the rounds of trying to learn from her friends over the phone/Skype, or teaching them if it's something she knows better than they do. She has to be up at 6:20am every day and sometimes doesn't get to bed until around 4:00-4:30.
We live in West Virginia. Some of the teachers are great. Others put in as much effort as is reflected in their (lack of) pay. I tried to suggest she take less rigorous courses, but she says they'd take just as much time then not look as good on college apps, cause the general studies teachers do the same thing.
My kid doesn't do drugs. I know cause I said if she was really interested I'd hop over and get some from DC where it was legal and she could try it at the house. She's drank at the house a few times but isn't particularly excited by it. She decides to just tweak out over her stress rather than escape it, which is just like.. the luck of her psyche profile. Maybe her lack of time to wonder about drugs has something to do with her apathy towards them, maybe it's just a coincidence. Either way, I'd rather have them not dump a ridiculous ton of directionless busy work on her, especially if it comes from a "keep 'em busy to keep 'em off drugs" mentality, and have her enjoy a little herb on the weekends. Sadly it is not up to me.
You don't need to take 7 AP courses to get into college. If she needs to work 22 hours a day to fulfill their workload, she probably won't succeed at whatever top-tier school she might get into anyway. I know because that's what happened to me. I had to come to grips to the fact that taking easier classes and going to an average college doesn't make you a lesser person. Better grades/more prestige/higher income aren't worth the risk to your health that that level of overworking yourself incurs. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
Ah, yes. You do not want your kids doing drugs or alcohol or hanging out with the wrong crowd but too much homework is excessive and stifling.
Maybe the trick is keeping your kid busy with non-school things like a sport (whether solo or team) and/or involved with one of the arts (music-singing or playing an instrument, theatre-dance or drama, art-drawing or painting or sculpting or cinematography).
There is also after school jobs or volunteering.
Keep them busy but NOT necessarily with school work.
I mean, I hate our low standing in international educational testing but I am also glad that we do not have those horrific teen suicide rates that South Korea and Japan have.
I suffer depression and anxiety. Talk to a doctor sleep helps, and if school work is too demanding then talk to her teachers I'm sure ur doing ur best but, from my experience, these things might.help
I went to an all STEM college and most of the people I knew there partied a lot in high school, partied in college, and are continuing to party in grad school. I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but harder courses don't necessarily stop that kind of behavior.
The STEM high school in the area is the same way. It's thought of as prestigious and not saying it's not, but there's plenty of trouble that goes around anyway.
How about school selection? Did the paper account for that? Because you're more likely to see more hard working student in better schools, and better schools are usually the one to provide harder courses. That might be another reason for the discrepancy.
Island had common up with a comprehensive approach including vouchers for sport activities (500€/ $600 a year) and promoting evening meals with all familie members.
Sacrifice mental health by increasing stress and taking away leisure time can't be good in the long run. Sure higher pressure will probably reduce substance use short term, but long term the students will find that alcohol can ease stress...
Great information as always. Can you look to see if the increased demands might also have correlations with anxiety, depression, or other mental illnesses?
Side note, I am not smart enough to know how the balancing of skin tone, make up, and lighting result into what we see on the video, but this episode was well done. Sometimes it can come through patchy or splotchy.
i can trace exactly what kept me away from drugs, not alcohol so much. Had a pretty heavy load at school but one thing my Catholic High School did - a few months before we were to start our Freshman year they sent us to orientation. During that time we were handed a bag full of books, memorable books included Brave New World, A Kiss Before Dying, Black Like Me, 1984, etc. And then in 1978 I got my first computer. That was the end of it. And during my freshman year my mom passed away from metastatic breast cancer. She'd smoked since she was a teenager. So that put the kibosh on that too.
If school is not satisfying enough, GED is for you. Explore your options.
As my mother says, "It keeps you off the streets and out of bars."
While i feel like everything you presented in the video was true, I feel as if it has the opposite effect when you get to College. When the courses become more rigorous and become more involved in school I feel as if students are more involved in Risky Behavior to cope with the fact that they are so busy. I have so many friends that are completely different majors and have different course loads, but I noticed that the ones with heavier loads between school work internship and classes are more likely to do drugs. They're are more likely to binge drink at a frat party. They're more likely to do the adderal the week of midterms to help them study for their test. I'm not going to lie after finals week we are going to drink more than usual to de-stress from the crazy week we just had. Now my friends are more Health Science majors and we are aware of the different behaviors and what considered risky and what's not, but that is not enough to keep them from engaging in Risky Behavior.
LOL, Drinking an excessive amount of alcohol to "de-stress", sounds like an oxymoron to me. Granted I do not understand the thrill in being drunk off your a**. But I do like to chill with a little neat bourbon, whiskey, or rum on occasion, just one of course.
So please, drink responsibly and have a blast!!
I did not expect a Pandemic: Legacy reference.
Nothing wrong with trouble in itself. It's the kinds of troubles that should be considered, and just how much they are getting into it.
Let the kids burn themselves, so long as they don't catch on fire. Let them understand the meaning of pain, don't shelter them from it or deprive them of any capacity for independent thought. Do not raise them to be blindly loyal and constantly seek assistance from the larger body, especially from corporations seeking only to fatten themselves up and spread their influence.
I don't want to see any kids being raised to be mindless consumers, or sent to foreign lands as soldiers to spread the influence of an empire that cares only for its numbers and not its contentment.
Pandemic legacy shoutout!!! Greatest game ever!!
who is surgeon admiral sam?
Pandemic Legacy - haven't tried that one yet. Good to know that board games are a hobby in your family - raising my daughter (2 a.) to like them too.
i have a question if you are peeing blood and pooping out blood and being told that you are lying about it and that you dont have parasites and cant drive
will i survive until sept 4th because i need to know that
if you have any questions i think you know who to contact i am just being watched even worse then the NSA watches over me
i miss marcs drones i guess with this sn ha bisky isnt needed
Wouldn't more affluent areas have higher graduation requirements? A lot of other social changes have occurred during the same time as graduation requirements changes.
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Studies are great and all, but how about actually asking people when and why they drank/smoked to understand the actual causes. For myself as an example, I only drank during summer vacation, because that is when there were longer periods of time to hangout with friends and safely consume. This would support study linking longer time in school with lower consumption.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Studying the relationship between the amount of time in school and the rates of various risky behaviors would certainly be worthwhile, but doing a study on that doesn't mean just asking some kids when and why they drink.
Sure, but contextual data is more powerful than simple data. The more information you can gather the better, and for this topic open-ended questions like when and why you drink could provide a lot of useful insight into drinking habits than simply crunching the numbers on the easily computable data.
Fair enough. I can't really argue with "more information is better".
Again this is garbage metrics. Work camps have a near 100% reduction in alcohol consumption. Doesn't mean that it's justified to force kids into things like that. Get them on a career path that they want instead!
Work camps and homework aren’t the same. What’s with this war on learning?
I didn't say that they were the same. I'm also not aware of a "war on learning." I'm merely pointing out the futility of trying to shove a ton of money and authoritarian solutions at kids that have no need or interest in the things that you're trying to push at them. Some never take any interest in learning, many won't retain the information in the long-term, most won't use the information in their day to day lives, and all of this leaves out the opportunity cost of their time!
What does homework have to do with learning? All homework ever was for me was tedious labor. I had no problems with passing tests by just paying attention in class.
no.
Surgeon Admiral Sam 2020?
Do an episode on the keto diet so I have something to shut all those annoying people up with?
this is so logical. Running out of ideas ?
Too damn funny, if your kid is binge drinking, you already screwed something up and probably should spend more time together, rather then out freaking sourcing supervision. Happy rats don't do drugs.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
This is stupid! Just look at data from home schooled kids.
What kids need isn't tons of school work! They need to have a great relationship with their family and spend time with them. They need to have things they are passionate about and spend time doing those. Those things will lead to great careers in the future. They need to find themselves before peer pressure pulls them into bad paths. How do they find themselves? Watch this ruclips.net/video/UlMkWJY5T_w/видео.html
Be a good parent and you don't need school.
Correlation?
Also, you're the one who keeps saying "correlation doesn't mean causation". What if those kids who enrolled in more demanding courses came from better families? It's just too many things to consider. But what I know is small children spend WAY too much time away from their parents, being oriented by OTHER KIDS (who have no maturity to do so) and teachers who only care about their salary. When you are thrown into the lions too young you're forced to become like them to survive. Kids in school don't care about learning or how it's going to lead into a career. They're merely surviving in an environment full of bullying and disconnection. We weren't made to be raised like this. It takes a village (of adults) to raise a child, that's how it's always been until the modern times and that's why you now have problems that didn't exist before.
OO great thing instead of exposing them to the shit and the good and letting them decide just have em do stupid mindless activities prethought for them so that they get to be kids forever
I think they turn to drugs because they lack a purpose, a goal, something to work towards. You can't provide people with a sense of purpose by endless hours of pointless homework and shitty booooring afterschool's children sould be truly free in setting their objectives and helped in achieving them, you cant make up an objective and have em do what ever you want because all their innate drive will get crushed and then ADHD happens
It's easy to impose tedious tasks on others specially if they can't complain because they don't know any better but the easy solution tends to be the worst
ihartevil what is proven to not be true? And how exactly?, private schools are objectivley better, and what finland does is to not pump their children with 10 hours a day of work and let them be free, this video is arguing the opposite
ihartevil and why exactly do ALL SCHOOLS HAVE TO BE PUBLIC?
Since when does the public sector do ANYTHING better than the private sector??? Why is it good to give the monopoly of indoctination to the state? Thats how nazis happen
I am trying but i really don't understand you're point. Do you realize public schools and private schools do not compete for funding? actually since people who go to private schools pay taxes + the tuition fee they are actually contributing more to public schools than the average person. The whole idea behind text books i think is bullshit because it's two or three people telling their version of reality. I am happy to explore the many links you have demonstrating better performance of public schools over private schools when equally funded but you haven't posted any.
i am sorry i usually really like what you do, but i can't really agree with this video. you say a very generic sentence somthing like "we need to reduce risky behavior early in life because habits that establish in youth often persist into adulthood." but by putting it here in that video you are saying that people who drink (smoke etc.) at high school (age) are more likely to establish a drinking (smoking etc.) habit into adult hood. and i would like to see the research to back that up! also in this video you are implying that every drink of alcohol or consume of other drugs is bad, always.
i am sorry but that is a little like teaching sex abstinence to a 16 year old couple... sooner or later it will happen and you better have them educated and they better think you are a person who they trust and to whom they would tell it.
instead of trying to keep every high schooler away from drugs always (and forever) we should have them know how to drink responsibly what the dangers are and that they can come to us if they have questions and/or problems.
I'm sure putting a GPS-enabled shock collar would reduce risky behavior in teens, too.
Meh
how are psychedelics in the same category as cocaine?
Have you ever heard of Bryan Caplan's book "The Case Against Education"? There is really no evidence that people retain what they are taught in schools or that schools seriously influence kids developmentally.
It's an excellent book that makes a good case for abolishing or at least severely slashing school funding.
Q B yes because most kids learn calculus through their everyday interactions with the world and never need to be taught anything by anyone.
Most kids grow up into adults who couldn't remember calculus if you put guns to their heads.
Hell, despite a decade of social studies classes in schools, 2/3 of US adults can't name the 3 branches of the federal government, and over 70% can't pass the US citizenship test.
Arrow, I would like to request something of you. Print out a calculus exam and give it to 100 random adults. See how many pass. I dare you.
Q B yes but the world needs people that know things such as calculus and isn’t better that we give every kid the chance to learn it?
Dude, I taught myself calculus from Khan Academy and Calculus For Dummies. We don't need to spend hundreds of billions per year on schools to teach people calculus.