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Who I Follow    That means approximately 7,663 hours in the year
are left unaccounted for.  Let’s assume parents don’t see their
kids until 5pm.  This might not be a proper assumption in a
world where so many parents have to work two jobs just to make
ends meet, but let’s assume.  So, two hours a day, for 6 days a
week, for 52 weeks.  That leaves 7,039 hours.  And we’ll be nice
and subtract hours that the children are sleeping and aren’t
necessarily aware of their surroundings.  Assuming healthy kids,
8 hours of sleep…that leaves 4,119.  Let’s assume those are
hours spent around their family.  It’s a faulty assumption I
know.  So we’ll adjust again - let’s say the students are also
accounted for in the summer by babysitters or summer camp. 
Three months, five days a week, 8 to 3 (we already accounted for
the hours until five for the whole year with the working-till-
five equation), that