Homework is Hell

[Anonymous]

My children come home everyday after school tired and overworked. They still have hours of homework ahead of them...what happened to childhood? Wondering what your thoughts are?

What can we do to free our children??!!!?

[Anonymous]

Are your kids in HS? I would be shocked if ES or MS students had "hours" of HW. I would expect that HS students would - esp junior and senior years.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

For my HS it really depends on the day and how many tests and papers they have that week.
Do you feel like they work ahead as they are able to in certain classes to lighten the burden on the days they can? That helps my kid.

[Anonymous]

I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.

[Anonymous]

My MS kid also has 2-3 hours a night -- and that's after study hall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MS kid also has 2-3 hours a night -- and that's after study hall.

Which classes are giving that much homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.

What homework for high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.

Nope- at our local school. Maybe your kid is fast or maybe your kid’s teachers aren’t assigning much, but my kid’s 8th honor geo teacher said at open house that there is about 45 min of homework per night on average and that has been accurate for my kid. The 8th grade HIGH class often has essays and PPTs and readings that take a good chunk of time as well. My kid is in Spanish 3A (not sure if that’s the equivalent of honors 3 French) and that has had a good amount of homework too (in 6th and 7th grade there was very little). And the other classes sometimes have no homework but sometimes have 20 min of assignments/ assigned readings. So yeah 2-3 hours on average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.

Nope- at our local school. Maybe your kid is fast or maybe your kid’s teachers aren’t assigning much, but my kid’s 8th honor geo teacher said at open house that there is about 45 min of homework per night on average and that has been accurate for my kid. The 8th grade HIGH class often has essays and PPTs and readings that take a good chunk of time as well. My kid is in Spanish 3A (not sure if that’s the equivalent of honors 3 French) and that has had a good amount of homework too (in 6th and 7th grade there was very little). And the other classes sometimes have no homework but sometimes have 20 min of assignments/ assigned readings. So yeah 2-3 hours on average.

Wow! My kid gets just a couple of homework problems a night for honors geo, takes maybe 10 mins (but this is a kid who just "gets" geometry - which he did not have passed down from me). The HIGH equivalent at our school has literally no homework ever; the teacher said at BTSN that this was for "equity" (which I really don't understand). It is a cohorted class at our school but clearly a bit of a joke.

I'm worried that HS will be a rough transition for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.

My ES kid has next to nothing. My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.

Nope- at our local school. Maybe your kid is fast or maybe your kid’s teachers aren’t assigning much, but my kid’s 8th honor geo teacher said at open house that there is about 45 min of homework per night on average and that has been accurate for my kid. The 8th grade HIGH class often has essays and PPTs and readings that take a good chunk of time as well. My kid is in Spanish 3A (not sure if that’s the equivalent of honors 3 French) and that has had a good amount of homework too (in 6th and 7th grade there was very little). And the other classes sometimes have no homework but sometimes have 20 min of assignments/ assigned readings. So yeah 2-3 hours on average.

Wow! My kid gets just a couple of homework problems a night for honors geo, takes maybe 10 mins (but this is a kid who just "gets" geometry - which he did not have passed down from me). The HIGH equivalent at our school has literally no homework ever; the teacher said at BTSN that this was for "equity" (which I really don't understand). It is a cohorted class at our school but clearly a bit of a joke.

I'm worried that HS will be a rough transition for my kid.

I have observed that classes at McPS schools can really vary in rigor depending on the teacher. Last year the toughest most time intensive class for my kid was non-cohorted English class, because the teacher assigned a ton of writing assignments, texts that were harder than the standard McPS texts and graded pretty strictly. A year later my kid has an English class that is mostly multiple choice assignments that are done in class, minimal homework other than reading a few chapters here and there and says it’s a breeze.

Similarly, grade 7 algebra wasn’t hard for my kid but Honors Geometry is requiring a ton of effort. The teacher characterized it as a class where many A students become C students. But maybe it would be easier with a different teacher. Or maybe your kid is just really good at geometry.

[Anonymous]

Homeschool, childhood and going to school means homework.

[Anonymous]

My 10th grader doing all AP classes does not have hours of homework.

My other kid, now in college, took the entire afternoon and evening to do his homework, in elementary, middle and high school. He had a processing speed measured at the 4th percentile, with inattentive ADHD and autism.

If your kids are taking hours to do homework, OP, and they're not doing 6 AP courses at the same time... you need to worry about processing speed and possible ADHD, because the two are often closely linked. They might need a diagnosis to get a 504 and extended time.