> None of them have these grueling 15 hour day schedules you’re describing.
I have contact with a lot of teens. This schedule is not unusual, although the truth IMO is that long hours and poor productivity form a vicious cycle.
> I don’t even know of a high school around me that starts at 7:30AM.
Irrelevant to the argument. NYC has 8am start times.
Notice that the hours were driven by involvement in sports, though.
> What universities are you targeting with such an extreme schedule?
Every highly selective school.
Plus they have no clue what’s really necessary so there’s a lot of “cargo culting”.
Plus, they don’t even know what they’re targeting until year 3 or 4 of high school, years after the long hours pattern starts.
> bubble
You are also universalizing your experience, no?
Frankly, looking at the map of educational achievement, most people are not going to college or not successful there, so this whole discussion of “student doesn’t want to attend their state university” is already a rarified atmosphere.
I agree that this is behavior destructive and unnecessary.
I have contact with a lot of teens. This schedule is not unusual, although the truth IMO is that long hours and poor productivity form a vicious cycle.
> I don’t even know of a high school around me that starts at 7:30AM.
Irrelevant to the argument. NYC has 8am start times.
Notice that the hours were driven by involvement in sports, though.
> What universities are you targeting with such an extreme schedule?
Every highly selective school.
Plus they have no clue what’s really necessary so there’s a lot of “cargo culting”.
Plus, they don’t even know what they’re targeting until year 3 or 4 of high school, years after the long hours pattern starts.
> bubble
You are also universalizing your experience, no?
Frankly, looking at the map of educational achievement, most people are not going to college or not successful there, so this whole discussion of “student doesn’t want to attend their state university” is already a rarified atmosphere.
I agree that this is behavior destructive and unnecessary.