In the movie 2 Million Minutes, it talks about how teenagers in 3 diffrent countries spend their time in high school. It goes into talking about how kids in China spend their time studying and spending a lot more time in extra cirriculars like music and dance and less on sports and TV. And the same is true in India. They have to go to school and its more of a privelage to get to go to school so they take it very seriously and study a lot more then the average US student does in high school. Also in India they already know what they will be majoring in by the time they enter high school. For the kids in India its a way out of poverty same with China. And in China since they can only have one child per family a lot more resources are poured into that one child. It just blew my mind that these kids are that dedicated all the way through. While the kids in the US went to football games, were class presidents and hung out with friends. It was a lot more laied back. And the kids in the other countires knew that and commented on it. Its just how you are brought up and the drive that you have to do well in school. All of these things play into how well you will do in school.
It was intresting to see how diffrent kids from around the world spend their time in high school, most study hard before they did anything else. Plus they had a lot more extra cirriculars that were dance, viloin lessons, tutoring for classes even if they were doing well, they just wanted to be the best. All these characteristics are very different here in Amreica. Its more laid back, and experts say we don't realize that we will be competing against these kids for jobs and that we need to be more prepare because we are behind them when it comes to academics. And thats something as a teacher we need to prepare these kids for, the idea of a more global job pool. And that not only are you competing with kids in your class, state, country, but now the world. And thats something we are very behind in.
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