It's also lack of opportunity.
We throw kids into schools for several hours a day, then don't monitor them for several more while we continue working.
I wasn't allowed to go outside of my circular street when I got home - preferably, I was supposed to stay inside doing homework. So 7 hours a day I was in school - most of that time I didn't have a gym class that did anything special. For 3-4 hours after that, I was supposed to be sitting doing homework. Exercise came only after that (if it was light enough outside and I had finished the exorbitant amount of homework high school heaped on me) or on the weekends (same deal).
It was probably a good thing we had high metabolisms and my parents were affluent enough to afford fresh fruit for snacks.
We throw kids into schools for several hours a day, then don't monitor them for several more while we continue working.
I wasn't allowed to go outside of my circular street when I got home - preferably, I was supposed to stay inside doing homework. So 7 hours a day I was in school - most of that time I didn't have a gym class that did anything special. For 3-4 hours after that, I was supposed to be sitting doing homework. Exercise came only after that (if it was light enough outside and I had finished the exorbitant amount of homework high school heaped on me) or on the weekends (same deal).
It was probably a good thing we had high metabolisms and my parents were affluent enough to afford fresh fruit for snacks.
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