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Re:We Have Ruined Childhood by knolax on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:01PM (#20734322)
> Kids in Japan lead carefree "be home by dark" lives up until late middle school and high school, when they start studying 4+hrs/day and sleeping <5hrs/night to prep for standardized tests.

In my experience the same's true for upper-middle class Americans.

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Re:We Have Ruined Childhood by learc83 on Monday August 19, 2019 @12:23AM (#20734872)
I've never heard of anything outside of a few edge cases doing anything like that here. It's definitely not the norm for upper-middle class kids.
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