Meet the 12-hour school day that will cure Gen Z’s crippling social awkwardness, complete with public speaking lessons and a smartphone ban
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THE PROMPT:
Let's get real; many parents are failing their children. They might tell their kid to limit and moderate their screen-time, but of course, that would be wildly hypocritical. Everyone is on the digital dopamine drip, including Boomers at this stage. There is no exit. Or is there? The problem is, we now know that brains don't fully develop until several years into one's '20s. This says nothing for pre-pubescent minds, or how emotional and behavioral patterns imprint at a young age. Raising a child is difficult, and parents have leaned on screens to distract, entertain, or babysit their kids for several decades now, but the Internet and social media, operating within the ubiquitous hegemony of smartphones, is an entirely different and highly evolved beast. The battle is likely already lost. Can we invite children to engage with education and simultaneously their communities, in a way that actually inspires them, and in a manner that can compete with Tik Tok and other digital apps, ecosystems and platforms, which we know are clinically designed to hijack attention spans and rewire brains? Is imprisoning our kids in some Dickensian, prison-like educational slog really the answer?
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