yitayningwut -I think the problem is that there is WAAAYYY too much emphasis these days about everyone being happy. Don’t get me wrong, I think everyone should be happy. I just think that realistically, we can’t all be happy all of the time. The issue is that kids are never going to be happy when they are told to do something. It doesn’t matter if the school day was only 3 hours, they would be unhappy about that too. The constant desire to do things just to make kids happy is actually causing more harm than good. They never appreciate things anymore. I bet when you had a day off from school it was like going on vacation – what to do with all this free time? Do today’s kids appreciate a day off? No. They want to know why they didn’t get two days off, because that would really make them “happy”.
I think we would all be better off if we thought about what the kids need instead of what would make them happy