September 07, 2019
Teenagers are increasingly depressed. This CNN article quote researchers who try to blame fast foods.
Well, I would say most kids are depressed these days because they come from broken homes, are oversexualized at a young age, and spend their time online rather than doing anything productive. They don't play outside, are over supervised, never without structure. That's enough to make anyone depressed.
The school year has barely started in Denver, and French teacher Tiffany Choi is already worried that her students are suffering from distraction.
The issue isn’t texting, watching TikTok videos or passing notes. It’s Denver’s ongoing heat wave.
"Today was a little bit hot, so I noticed kids were very sleepy and they were having to get up to drink water quite often,†said Choi, who works at Denver’s East High School. "If you are dehydrated, and you have to keep going to the water fountain, that can take away from their classroom experience.â€
While nodding off in class on a warm day may seem like a right of passage for the average teen, Choi’s observation carries a bigger consequence than parched lips.
Extreme heat lowers a child’s ability to learn, according to an examination of 10 million American students that shows hotter school days reduce standardized test scores. Based on the analysis, every 1-degree-Fahrenheit increase in average outdoor temperature over a school year reduces student learning by 1 percent.
I'm so old I remember that all during my academic career, from first grade to my (abortive) graduate school days, I was subjected to schoolrooms with no air conditioning, and nobody got away with "Gee, Teacher, it's too hot for me to learn." Because nobody would have paid a bit of attention to you: parents, teachers or school administration. Nor would teachers have tried "Gee, kids, it's too hot to teach." The administration would have found somebody else who was willing to tough it out. If you were caught dozing off in class the teacher would tell you to go to the john and put some cold water on your eyes.
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Notice how there is no mention about school starting too early and ending too late. IF they were really worried about heat-induced torpidity they wouldn't start school the first week of August, or run it until mid June, like they do now. There was a good reason to make Labor Day and Memorial Day the ending and starting dates. But the teachers' unions wanted more time so they could get more pay, and the Progressive educrats wanted more time away from the parents' "reactionary" worldview.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 08, 2019 10:34 AM (IWsoJ)
Of course, in reality that's only happening in the fevered brains of the warmiacs and corruptocrats.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 08, 2019 10:11 PM (rIYC+)
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