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...time for a family breakfast and a lazy morning and an afternoon of outside play or a museum trip or whatever else strikes the family's fancy. Monday, they all know, will come soon enough, and the girls will be going back to the high-stakes race of schoolwork and homework and ballet or chess or soccer practice. But until then, they are going to have a chance to breathe. "My children," Ben-Ari insists, "will have all the time they need simply to hang out and be children...
More concerned about her carbohydrate intake than her schoolwork, Miriam R. Asnes '02 worries that Passover observation has interfered with her preparation for the 105th annual Boston Marathon...
...horror of this final wait for the Bottom is what really drains me. As the ratio of time spent studying to time until the Bottom increases without limit, my interest in things unrelated to schoolwork increases proportionally. The smallest curiosity, the dullest barb can hook my attention for hours. As the opportunity cost of stealing away time from studies increases, my irrational desire for shenanigans becomes unbearable. An hour and a half on amihotornot.com playing God of aesthetics. Forty-five minutes re-reading an utterly boring Times story on the profit margins of foreign car manufacturers. An hour faux-drumming...
...quaint holdover from the agrarian economy when students needed weekends and summers off to help till the family farm. And it's a distinctly American phenomenon. While most American students spend their late afternoons and weekends doing nothing in particular, students in other nations simply devote more days to schoolwork. Italian and Korean children have more than 200 school days; Chinese kids have 250 - and, unsurprisingly, many tend to outscore their American peers. Add that to the growing research showing that during those long summer vacations, when memories fade and learning is not reinforced, kids lose significant academic ground...
...suspending her, her school also confiscated her private journal and forbade her from wearing or drawing any Wiccan symbol in school. In its lawsuit, the school maintains that Blackbear, who formerly had a sterling record, has become a pariah among her peers and has fallen behind in her schoolwork as a result of the allegations. Brandi's father, Timothy Blackbear, told the press that "it's hard for me to believe that in the year 2000 I am walking into court to defend my daughter against charges of witchcraft brought by her own school...