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