This Salon.com article, "Why Kids Need Solitude" was passed on to my by Grade Six teacher and former Waldorf student, Kirsten Dahlberg. It has some nice points about constant busy-work in classrooms, lesson content and structure, and how building distractions into schoolwork impacts individuals' ability to focus on tasks for long periods of time. In short, in many educational settings, students are being 'trained' to have short attention spans.With today being a snow day, you may get a moment of solitude yourself. If so, maybe you'll have the opportunity to see what you think of some of the ideas presented in the article.
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