Two Million Minutes
THE DOCUMENTARY
Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, the clock starts ticking. From that very moment the child has approximately
…Two Million Minutes until high school graduation…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult.
How a student spends their Two Million Minutes - in class, at home studying, playing sports, working, sleeping, socializing or just goofing off -- will effect their economic prospects for the rest of their lives.
How do most American high school students spend this time? What about students in the rest of the world? How do family, friends and society influence a student's choices for time allocation? What implications do their choices have on their future and on a country's economic future?
This is apropos for me!
ReplyDeleteEver since we hit middle school I've been more and more distressed by the way the school uses C's time. I've felt they were scooping up huge heaping armloads of his finite time and dumping it in the trash. (True! This has been my image.)
In the next 4 years he's got to do work that counts.