Is the Drive for Success Making our Children Sick
A MUST READ ARTICLE – especially for families pursuing highly competitive schools. American schools and colleges do an excellent job in most things with the glaring exception of mental health. Students “compete” with one another to see who got the least sleep and/or who studied the longest. Sleep deprivation for adolescents is the norm, especially at competitive independent schools. We know that driving fatigued is as dangerous as drunk driving; will we recognize that academic performance suffers greatly from sleep deprivation? Will piling on hours of homework no longer be the norm?