Man do the majority of these people ever lack a personality!!! There are about 5 new teachers at work. Of those, 3 of them are definitely socially retarded. The others aren't exactly fireballs either. A lot of the children are the same. I have a girl in one of my classes who I have to check for a pulse every few minutes because I fear she may have died in class.
I think another big problem with the children and why they are so dead so much of the time is the serious lack of sleep that they are getting. I wonder just how much it impairs their development to get so little sleep. Today one of my students told me that she wanted to sleep in class and I asked why she was so tired. Her response was that she had went to bed at 2:30 and was just a little tired. So I did a poll of the class and out of 9 students, only one had got 8 hours of sleep. The rest of them were average about 5 hours each and this was just a typical day for them. These are 10 and 11 year old kids. I guess I can appreciate my mom making me go to bed so early now that I see these kids. One kid, Ralph, told me that one time during summer vacation he slept for 15 hours. I couldn't help but say "Good for you." Its so sad too when I am out on weekends and see parents out with their toddlers at 1 or 2 in the morning. I can't help but think that they are just training them for their days to come.
Late night buddy??? This was at about 6pm on a Thursday evening on the subway:
A lot of people have made predictions about robots taking over the world one day. Well just the same, Koreans and Asians with their incessant studying and 14 hour workdays may one day control the economic world. I say let them have it. They may make more money than us one day but you have to remember quality of life. I know I never want to be a robot. At what point does it cease to be life anymore?
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True dat Clark... True dat.
It's almost weird being back in a society where, gasp, women and children, have opinions and, gasp, they voice them!
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