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Kids should be outside playing, not coding.

Adults, too.

Coding is playing.

Just kidding, of course. One thing I've noticed is that my kids have vastly more homework than I ever had, and homework now starts in kindergarten. There are only so many waking hours in the day.

Can kids do homework outside?

Perhaps. It would require providing a place to do it, and good weather. I live in a locale with a pretty hard winter.

And schools are increasingly moving schoolwork to the distraction box, er, the computer.

Less homework seems like a simpler solution.

I had a lot of homework as well but at some point I pretty much decided "fuck that, I have better things to do" and learned programming instead. My math grades went down a bit but I actually learned something.

I wish I'd learnt the same prior to university.

I did the same, and just started skipping classes and going to the library instead. It made getting a job harder, but I don't regret it one bit.

"If outside was so good why has man spent thousands of years perfecting inside?"

Sheldon Cooper

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