Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
After wandering around in Germany, coming home late etc my kid was shocked when we put him in a US school 6 year ago (i.e. post smartphone).  It wasn&#x27;t just the unstructured time, but the range of things kids are allowed to do.  Amusingly&#x2F;sadly he said things like &quot;people here haven&#x27;t heard of freedom&quot;.<p>We had neighbors with a kid precisely the same age as him, but the kids were never around, instead being driven from place to place.<p>(BTW it&#x27;s pretty common to complain about the quality of US education too but in this case it was actually OK, especially when compared to the notorious Berlin schools, and he decided on a US undergraduate education which I think was a good decision.)