[xrp]

Neal Boortz rags on the Ritalin generation all the time on his talk show. He's absolutely right. Drugging kids is the quick and easy fix for kids who are energetic and imaginative. The teachers don't want that, they want automotons. I was an extremely energetic and imaginative kid and whenever I had energy to burn, my mother would just make me run around the house 10 times. It worked wonders. Nowadays they just pop em full of pills.

Of course, it doesn't surprise me that government employees (teachers) want to force a more docile generation of pansies, err Americans.

[Tax-chick]

my mother would just make me run around the house 10 times

LOL - I have my sons jump on the trampoline! (We can do the running thing when we have grass instead of mud :-).

I thought it was interesting that the Chinese school was starting the day with exercise. I've been thinking that we should do that here, and I just haven't implemented it yet ... hard for me to demonstrate calisthenics when I'm 7 months pregnant ... But I'll bet it makes a big difference in how alert the students are to start the school day.