According to Pew Research Center, 77% of US adults now support in-classroom phone bans for middle and high school students, marking the second consecutive year that support...
One of the more chilling moments of the '90s for me was when they put the child safety restraint seat laws in at federal level. Now, I had a newborn and a toddler at the time, and I was voluntarily putting them in the best safety seats we could get, but to me what those laws were was training the populace, from the earliest ages (up through age 5 I think) that they MUST COMPLY with the OVERWHELMING FORCE of adults bigger than them and submit to being physically restrained the whole time they are in a car. It’s like they were prepping the population to be less resistant to arrest and physical restraints.
I always thought homework was some employers’ wet dream about getting their employees to not only work for the company while in-office, but also to work all night long too. And I know some “go getter carreer oriented” people with aspirations to management who did exactly that for decades. Personally, I rate my work product and volume as “optimal” with around 30 hours a week of focused devotion to task, beyond that I do more bad work which has less total value than if I just did the 30 hours and knocked off to let my brain rest, refresh and reset to do another good 30 hours next week.
One of the more chilling moments of the '90s for me was when they put the child safety restraint seat laws in at federal level. Now, I had a newborn and a toddler at the time, and I was voluntarily putting them in the best safety seats we could get, but to me what those laws were was training the populace, from the earliest ages (up through age 5 I think) that they MUST COMPLY with the OVERWHELMING FORCE of adults bigger than them and submit to being physically restrained the whole time they are in a car. It’s like they were prepping the population to be less resistant to arrest and physical restraints.
I always thought homework was some employers’ wet dream about getting their employees to not only work for the company while in-office, but also to work all night long too. And I know some “go getter carreer oriented” people with aspirations to management who did exactly that for decades. Personally, I rate my work product and volume as “optimal” with around 30 hours a week of focused devotion to task, beyond that I do more bad work which has less total value than if I just did the 30 hours and knocked off to let my brain rest, refresh and reset to do another good 30 hours next week.