Word: homeworkers
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...social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake was stopping the killing and the dying and the worst of the misery," recalls former Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili. "He insisted we do our homework and figure out how that could be done, which in the end we did, and [we] carried...
Then I asked myself if I was the psychotic one--why was I questioning the fact that I had some free time? I'm sure in high school I never thought, "Hmm...I don't have much homework this weekend. What am I doing wrong?" I probably thought, "Hmm...I don't have much homework this weekend. Where can I hang out?" and proceeded to the Fro-Yo Shoppe. Granted, I could probably go to the Greenhouse any day this week and see someone I know but the problem still remains--that person will be studying furiously...
HATE SITES The Web carries more than 1,400 racist, anti-Semitic and other hate sites--not to mention websites specializing in police photos and morgue shots--according to the Wiesenthal Center. Many of these pages have names that could easily turn up in homework searches. It's ugly, toxic stuff. The best antidote is to teach your children to find it as repugnant...
...that simple. The concerns are subtler yet no less worrisome. Do graphically violent games desensitize children to violence? Do such games teach kids to take pleasure in the suffering and death of others? Are even nonviolent e-games addictive? Do they gobble up time better spent on homework, sports and other outdoor play? Or is most gaming time taken away from time in front of the TV, which, because kids sit passively before it, may be worse for them? What, if anything, should we do as a society? Should we ban the sale of violent video games to minors...
Last fall Jonathan would sometimes stay up all night playing sports games on his video deck. When his grades slipped, his parents cut off access, then limited use to the post-homework hours. Jonathan realized that his gaming was getting out of hand when "a friend called to ask me to go to a movie and I said, 'No, I've got other plans,' just because I wanted to stay home and play video games...