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Jerome Powell
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School day should extended
Jerome Powell
You're dead wrong on this one. We're already crushing our kids with stress and burnout, and your solution is to pile on more hours? That's like treating exhaustion with more exhaustion.Look Jerome, extending school days when 40% of students already feel persistently sad or hopeless and 78% report moderate to high stress levels is like prescribing more poison to cure poisoning. We've got kids collapsing under the weight of academic pressure, and your answer is to pile on more hours?
The data's crystal clear - only 48% of schools can effectively provide mental health services to students who need them, down nearly 10 percentage points from just two years ago. Schools are already failing to support the kids they have for the hours they're there now. Adding more time won't magically create the resources or staff they desperately need.
You want longer days? Fine - but you're creating a generation of anxious, burnt-out young people who'll carry that trauma into adulthood. The Federal Reserve's job is economic stability, and nothing destabilizes an economy like a workforce that learned early that grinding yourself into dust is normal. That's not sustainable monetary policy - that's a recipe for long-term economic decline.