electronic crack ?
found this quote at another blog :
"13) Television Watching: In black households, 42 percent of fourth-graders watch six or more hours of televisions each day. Only 13 percent of white fourth-graders watch six or more hours of television each day.
Point 13 is perhaps the most condemning point. six hours of television a day represents 30 hours of television a week. or the equivalent of just under the hours of full-time employment. to put this in perspective if we look at another article in the same Journal, which discusses graduation rates of black High Schoolers, we would note that the national average for black graduation is 50.2 percent and in New York 35.1 percent graduate and in New Jersey the rates is 62.3%. therefore we have corresponding drop-out rates of 49.8%, 64.9% and 47.7% respectively. With the exception of the New York rates, one can theoretically make a direct correlation between television watching and drop-out rates. Remember tv watching and the development of 24 hour entertainment directed at children and teenagers (Cartoon Network and the various iterations of MTV) are relatively recent phenomena so tv watching is currently going up, not down."
...to add to that on a related note , i heard recently on NPR about a study done that reached the conclusion that significant television watching by children under 4 has almost a druglike effect on kids .
Basically they said that what happens is tv strongly stimulates and permanently alters the development of neurological pathways in very young children's growing brains .
As a result of this intense artificial stimulation , the child craves more and more of it and later finds finds school simply too 'boring' in comparison because the teachers cannot compete with tv and provide the same intense levels of stimulation the kids' neuropathways are accustomed to and crave .
"13) Television Watching: In black households, 42 percent of fourth-graders watch six or more hours of televisions each day. Only 13 percent of white fourth-graders watch six or more hours of television each day.
Point 13 is perhaps the most condemning point. six hours of television a day represents 30 hours of television a week. or the equivalent of just under the hours of full-time employment. to put this in perspective if we look at another article in the same Journal, which discusses graduation rates of black High Schoolers, we would note that the national average for black graduation is 50.2 percent and in New York 35.1 percent graduate and in New Jersey the rates is 62.3%. therefore we have corresponding drop-out rates of 49.8%, 64.9% and 47.7% respectively. With the exception of the New York rates, one can theoretically make a direct correlation between television watching and drop-out rates. Remember tv watching and the development of 24 hour entertainment directed at children and teenagers (Cartoon Network and the various iterations of MTV) are relatively recent phenomena so tv watching is currently going up, not down."
...to add to that on a related note , i heard recently on NPR about a study done that reached the conclusion that significant television watching by children under 4 has almost a druglike effect on kids .
Basically they said that what happens is tv strongly stimulates and permanently alters the development of neurological pathways in very young children's growing brains .
As a result of this intense artificial stimulation , the child craves more and more of it and later finds finds school simply too 'boring' in comparison because the teachers cannot compete with tv and provide the same intense levels of stimulation the kids' neuropathways are accustomed to and crave .
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