distraction this is and there s too many parent who is become enablers, johnny and susie are stressed, they need time for facebook, they need time for soccer. you don t know what stress is. stress will be not understanding this thick chinese accept of your kids first boss. that will be stress. when you look at these other countries, what i m struck by is there s almost no athletics involved. you know, if you were to go to finland, germany, south korea, singapore and say i want to play soccer. they would say there s a league next door. why are you asking us? we re an educational institution. yet if you look at high schools in america, the degree of the time, energy money devoted to, say, football is huge. that must be a distraction. it is, and part of the problem goes back to we start with so little time to begin with. and then we try to move the time
america where it s not emlating other folks, we can definitely learn what they re thinking, this will take shanghai and singapore and finland to new heights. american culture doesn t support learning in the same way. in china bill gates is britney spears. in america britney spears is conspira britney spears. i have gotten several of these in a basically, you know, described as his class which is, you know got a lot of a students and a real lot of f student where is kids just don t do their home work, they don t come to school prepared and they don t appreciate the connection between skills and their job opportunities. and a lot of the distractions facebook, twitter, all of these things, i don t think we appreciate how much of a