>I have never seen any serious statistics on how youths 8 to 18 spend
>their time, but my own guess is that they are as overworked in various
>ways as are adults. Recess in schools was, I believe, long ago replaced
>by "physical education."
But charter schools, Liza Featherstone tells me, often give the kids neither recess nor phys ed - not cost-effective, you know - so the poor students just fidget all day, so overflowing they are with energy.
Doug