{"id":9138,"date":"2021-09-11T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"50-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"50% CAPACITY?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The human brain is not fully developed until age 26. (I read it on the internet, so it must be true!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t mean to be unkind, but doesn&#8217;t that mean my 8th graders &#8211; on average, 13 years old &#8211; are functioning at 50% capacity?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I asked a class whether or not they were planning to go on to college someday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One student blurted out, &#8220;No way!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It caught me off guard, so I asked for his reasoning.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here it is: &#8220;Why would I choose to go on to college when I already hate junior high so much?!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, in his mind, college is simply junior high on steroids.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder if he has ever pondered why so many people would willingly pay $40,000 per year for Extended Junior High.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain is not fully developed until age 26. (I read it on the internet, so it must be true!) I don&#8217;t mean to be unkind, but doesn&#8217;t that mean my 8th graders &#8211; on average, 13 years old &#8211; are functioning at 50% capacity? Yesterday I asked a class whether or not they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}