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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: Question Everything: What Common Practice Will Horrify Our Kids? [Watch (HLS stream): Question Everything: What Common Practice Will Horrify Our Kids?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7WrV5AhX.m3u8) (1:04)  _Published 2015-09-18. TIME hit the streets to ask New Yorkers several offbeat questions designed to provoke and prod the brain._ by Ken Robinson  NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Actor Haley Joel Osment discusses his new series "The Spoils Before Dying" at AOL Studios In New York on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Adela Loconte/WireImage) Getty Images; Photo illustration by Alex Thebez for TIME I can only hope that future generations will look back in amazement at how we now test and test our kids in school. When I moved to the U.S. 14 years ago, I was warned by friends in Europe that Americans don’t get irony. I knew it wasn’t true when I saw that legislation, No Child Left Behind, because whoever thought of that title gets irony. The relentless pressure of testing has turned millions of kids off school, demoralized countless teachers and pitched schools and districts against each other in a frantic race for resources. Meanwhile, it hasn’t raised standards in any way that matters. What it has raised is the profits of the testing companies. Testing is now a multi-billion dollar industry, which gives politicians the comforting illusion of rigor while feeding off the stress of students and educators alike. Just goes to show that irony isn’t always funny. _Robinson is an author and speaker._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] What common practice will horrify our kids when we look back? I think over sharing on the Internet is a common practice that our kids will look back and be horrified by. The laws on drugs, and the incarceration rate in the states is gonna horrify people in the future. Certainly think homophobia is something that like People are going to be looking back during our generation and be like how could you treat people as second class citizens? I believe the way that we treat the environment now is something that people will look back on in the future and be completely horrified by because they are the ones that are reaping he repercussions of it. Our use of fossil fuels in general. Just not considering the impact of what we do, We still don't treat the environment the way it should be I think in the future they will look back and say how could you ever have done that? Net And we're posting a lot of naked pictures of our children before they can give us permission to. How intensely attached we are to our phones and our mobile devices and our technology. The lack of focus put onto renewable energy. Would hope that should horrify everybody. 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