Cram schools are schools that help students prepare for college if they have previously failed to get accepted into a college. Korea, home to a such an institution, has schedules that consist of getting up at 6:30 a.m., eating breakfast and exercising, and then studying most of the day and night.  Bedtime is at 12:30 a.m. unless people want to cram more studying until 2 a.m.

The article says that students forsake all the pleasures of a teenage life. Included in that list are the following: 

Students work for a better future. They are willing to make these sacrifices because their parents are making sacrifices to send them to such a school, according to the article. 

Do you think students in America need a similar "regimen" to get them on a better track, putting more of an emphasis on education and eliminating distractions?

Or do you think this is cruel and unusual punishment?