Book Club: The Coddling of the American Mind (#41)
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There's a decline in free play among kids. There's also, which we've talked about in terms of excellent sheep, where we can circle back the college degree and competitiveness for college admissions starts going up. So then homework becomes forefront, test prep, test scores become more important. And so not only are kids not indulging in free play, they're playing less because of these other quantitative things that they must start building towards to get into good colleges.
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