American students on busy work, shitty teachers, the tied hands of the non-shitty teachers, teaching to tests, promoting attention to apathetic and failing stud

American students on busy work, shitty teachers, the tied hands of the non-shitty teachers, teaching to tests, promoting attention to apathetic and failing students at the expense of the ones who excel and care, inability to get any kind of credit for learning about things interesting to them that aren't on the district's curriculum, and not explaining to them how anything being taught to them is supposed to impact their lives: "Not a fan. No, absolutely not." Video games are a formidable player in the war for childrens' attention, but they're not going anywhere, so making them a scapegoat when you can't get rid of them isn't going to help anything. Even if we eradicated them from the face of the earth, something else would take their place. The goal shouldn't be to erase the distractions that the world provides or pretend they don't exist, it should be to learn how to deal with them.