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Re: Limits on Team Hours

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
For the team it may not be a problem but this policy is across the board and it IS a problem for many high schoolers. Now, perhaps the team may get an exception made but calling the policy stupid is a good way of pissing off the people you need to help you.
What's the problem? "Oh Johnny is a straight A student, but he stays up late at night and works really hard for his grades. We should stop it. It's not fair to students who don't work hard and get poor grades." That's a bunch of hooey.

My next question is how is this going to be enforced? Will the school hire spies to watch what people are doing when they're out of school? Or will they put software that shuts down your computer when you fire up Netbeans after x amount of hours coding?

And what's wrong with being obsessed with a problem? What if Bill Gates had been told to stop spending so much time at his high school's computer lab coding? Or Edison to stop staying up all night working away? Or Dean Kamen to stop thinking about the Segway? So what kind of message does this send to students? "Homework is important, but you can only spend a small amount of time on it. What's more important is that you have fun, and enjoy life".

Yeah - like that's the kind of attitude we really need right now.
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