are now banding together and banning extracurriculars
on a particular day of the month, so that people can,
you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down.
Homework is another thing. There are homework bans
springing up all over the developed world
in schools which had been piling on the homework for years,
and now they're discovering that less can be more.
So there was a case up in Scotland recently
where a fee-paying, high-achieving private school
banned homework
for everyone under the age of 13,
and the high-achieving parents freaked out and said,
"What are you -- you know, our kids will fall" -- the headmaster said,
"No, no, your children need to slow down at the end of the day."
And just this last month, the exam results came in,
and in math, science, marks went up 20 percent
on average last year.
And I think what's very revealing is that
the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason
that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much,
are starting to notice the caliber of students