Is it normal for grade11 to stay until near 12am?
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Anonymous
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Previously I tried to get him to go to bed at around 11pm. Now it is postponed to near 12am.
I know mostly he is working on his homework. |
Anonymous
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Yes.
That is why the schedule for high schools should be left alone. |
Anonymous
| Dear God. I hope not. |
Anonymous
| My sophomore is staying up until 1:00 AM some days, so.... |
Anonymous
he probably is doing a lot of chatting with friends - more so than homework itself. |
Anonymous
Yes, he is not a super hardworking boy. He will relax for a bit after school. Probably after 9pm, he starts to realize there are some homework to do. |
Anonymous
| My grade 10 boy is in bed (without devices) by 10 unless he has a late sports practice or game. He gets his homework done before then easily. |
Anonymous
. why? take phones away |
Anonymous
She does her homework at the dinner table. Not using phones. Genuinely has a truckload of work, ECs, works, and some days just end up being long (for instance, was up until late last night because she didn't get home until 10:15 after her SRO audition ran super late, and had a quiz to review for - the other three things that were due, she had done previously). She has terrible teachers this year, so is self teaching herself the material for the most part (including all the APs), which takes hours of extra work. |
Anonymous
| We usually aim for 10-11 but it can be up till midnight or later with homework and activities. |
Anonymous
| Teach your kid to finish most of the homework at school. My kids did their homework in the classroom, during lunch, on the school bus. And they were in competitive magnet STEM program. |
Anonymous
This. Most kids are given a lot of time during the school day to be free. If your kid goofs off, socializes or zones out it is a missed opportunity. Have two in high school and both go to bed 9:45-10:30 timeframe. They also are really good about when they get home from sports finishing up any work they did not get done during the day. |
Anonymous
| Yes |
Anonymous
Might depend on the classes. As far as I can tell, this doesn't seem to be how DD's classes have been working. Her math class for instance, assigns about 15 pages of problems each session, on average. And the teacher gets super pissed if the kids start working on this in class, instead of focusing on whatever she's asking them to do. One of her other classes on that day assigns about a chapter of reading a week (40-50 pages) and about 45 problems a week. The third one is just note taking, so it's usually only about 20-30 pages per session. When you add in all the quizzes and tests, there is no earthly way to prep for everything during the school day; the only "free time" she has is about 45 minutes every other day during advisory, and once she starts tutoring for honor society, that's gone as well. As it is, she's usually doing her work in the car on her way to places, and still ends up having to stay up late some nights. |
Anonymous
+1 we see this too for our kid. The amount of time and effort stuff ends up taking is far more than the time offered in class, but usually they don’t get any class time. If they do it’s not enough to finish whatever monster task (which ends up being formative anyway). They really need to stop the busy work and just get back to lectures, note taking and reading and then quiz or test. It’s too much. |