Waste of Time?

The kids here live at school, I am not kidding, they might as well sleep here. You know all the time kids spend at school, even on Saturdays, right? Well, I can attest that half the things they do, I would consider a waste of time. Moral classes, constant school-wide meetings, chorus and sports contests that take weeks of practice on school days. School is like summer camp with subjects. The teachers are expected to entertain the kids almost every waking hour. When they go home, there is no time to do anything except attend cram school for a few hours, eat dinner at 9 pm with the family and maybe study. No wonder there is low crime and no kids wandering around thinking of stupid things to do. They are together almost every waking hour being “productive”. I think they are in school way too much, BUT if they weren’t in school they would just be latchkey kids because their parents are work WAY too much. So, in the end perhaps it’s better for them to be at school playing, than at home doing God-knows-what.