Any Boston Legal fans out there?
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- February
- 20
Wait! Keep reading! This actually has something to do with education!
I didn’t catch the episode last night, but apparently there was a case where a woman sets out to sue a high school for causing the death of her daughter. The argument was that the girl crashed her car and died because she was sleep deprived due to a heavy school workload.
I thought this was interesting because I definitely remember being up until all hours of the night, er, morning, doing homework in high school. It was ridiculous.
Granted, the late hours were partially due to the fact that I always was playing sports after school and didn’t get to start my homework until at least 8 or so, the earliest. But that’s life in high schools these days. If you’re not doing something after school — whether it be a sport, club, volunteering, whatever — then your college application is going to suffer. And we already know how competitive it is to get into colleges today.
Yet to blame a high school for a fatal accident? Seems like a stretch to me. I mean, the kid could have just gone to sleep and copied the homework the next day before class. Isn’t that what study hall is for anyway? 
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