Bay Area Schools Considering Less Homework, More Coddling of Stressed Out Kids

School districts around the Bay Area are mulling changes to their policies regarding homework assigned to students, because new evidence is emerging that we're raising a generation of over-stressed over-achievers who can't sleep. Parents these days are pressuring kids earlier and earlier with getting good grades and taking AP classes in order to get into better colleges, and as a result their childhoods are getting destroyed.

Because of this, local school districts are considering changes to the amounts of homework assigned, with some implementing no-homework weekends, while others are considering a policy in which homework only counts toward 10% of a student's grades.

It seems to us that it's not just homework that's to blame here -- what with all the soccer practices and bassoon lessons and community service and Spanish tutoring, i.e. all the things that really help you get into college -- and assigning less homework just means kids will fill their time with other stuff, like sexting and TV. But we suppose a night of relaxing sexting amongst friends might be just what the doctor ordered.