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Title unrelated. Anyways, at school today they had this screening of the documentary Race to Nowhere, showing how students are overloaded with homework and extra-curricular activities and how this is hurting us more than it's making us smarter. It was pretty good, and anyone who says it was boring has an extremely short attention span. I related to a lot of it, and I also didn't relate to a lot of the points made in the movie.

For example, there were 7th graders being interviewed, and they said that they regularly stay up until midnight or later finishing homework. First of all, how do you survive on that much sleep every day, especially at that age? Second...oh wait. Well, I just realized that maybe the reason why I almost never had to stay up late finishing homework was that our school had already cut down on it. Hm...nevermind this.

I did relate to how a lot of students were under lots of pressure from parents, themselves, and others to get straight A's and take every single AP course the school offered. I remember my parents used to get all riled up when I missed even just one question on a quiz. It got to the point that I was scared to show them any type of grade. But, after an event happened (it's a bit too personal for me to be put up on the internet), they eased off a bit. It made me feel so much better, although they still don't like it when I get a B. And about taking every single AP course, I'm definitely not doing that. Maybe a couple, but not every single one. I know someone who is doing that, and they sometimes get only 4 hours of sleep, sometimes even less. If I had that much sleep every day, I'd collapse.

A lot of other topics the documentary talked about that I could talk about too, but I don't feel like it right now. Maybe tomorrow.