Less scheduled kids - how are they faring in high school and beyond?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are an average adult who went to an average college, have an average job and your kids attend an average school, your kid is probably doing fine and will continue your average lives. They can also go to an average college, get an average job, marry a fellow average spouse and repeat. This is probably what happens to most people.

But do you mean real world average or dcum average?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

What kind of joke high school does your child attend? My kid gets tons of work in his AP classes. There is no way your child has no homework if he is taking AP world or US history, AP Calc, AP chem, etc. my kid is getting crushed with work.

Can't believe anyone would be happy that they're kid is getting crushed by work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

What kind of joke high school does your child attend? My kid gets tons of work in his AP classes. There is no way your child has no homework if he is taking AP world or US history, AP Calc, AP chem, etc. my kid is getting crushed with work.

Can't believe anyone would be happy that they're kid is getting crushed by work.

Who said anything about being happy? I’m just saying that AP classes require work. I don’t buy the pp who said their child gets no homework. At open house and back to school night, the teachers all said the AP classes are 1-2 hours per class per day. I know my kid probably studied 5+ hours for his AP history test last week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

What kind of joke high school does your child attend? My kid gets tons of work in his AP classes. There is no way your child has no homework if he is taking AP world or US history, AP Calc, AP chem, etc. my kid is getting crushed with work.

Can't believe anyone would be happy that they're kid is getting crushed by work.

Who said anything about being happy? I’m just saying that AP classes require work. I don’t buy the pp who said their child gets no homework. At open house and back to school night, the teachers all said the AP classes are 1-2 hours per class per day. I know my kid probably studied 5+ hours for his AP history test last week.

I'm sorry, but from your comment it sounded like you were.

[Anonymous]

Pp again. I do think you can get away with no studying in middle school but not high school AP classes.

[Anonymous]

My three children are now in their mid to late 30s and they are doing very well! We never over scheduled them and we just let them do what they wanted to do which was not crazy. None of them were crazy about sports though they did participate. We encouraged it but didn’t drive it. They definitely pursued their own interests which we supported. We did encourage them to be good students and they were.

[Anonymous]

Does less scheduled also mean you don't supplement much at home? I'm not very happy with our public school, and I'm thinking of adding some work at home. Nothing major, just a page of math and spelling a few times a week, maybe 20 minutes a day. Basically things I think he should be learning at school. Is everyone already doing this, and I just don't know...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

What kind of joke high school does your child attend? My kid gets tons of work in his AP classes. There is no way your child has no homework if he is taking AP world or US history, AP Calc, AP chem, etc. my kid is getting crushed with work.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

What kind of joke high school does your child attend? My kid gets tons of work in his AP classes. There is no way your child has no homework if he is taking AP world or US history, AP Calc, AP chem, etc. my kid is getting crushed with work.

Public schools are not into giving homework because it isn’t equitable. They give class time to do it. My neighbor teaches an AP class and says they were told they had to give class time to students to do homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are an average adult who went to an average college, have an average job and your kids attend an average school, your kid is probably doing fine and will continue your average lives. They can also go to an average college, get an average job, marry a fellow average spouse and repeat. This is probably what happens to most people.

I love this comment. Because it is 100% spot on. We’re all just a bunch of average Joes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in high school has straight As and no homework. All honors and AP classes. I dont know why the schools did away with homework. What do you want my kid to do in their free time?

I mean theoretically homework is to get in enough practice to master the subject, not to fill free time.

But I have a hard, hard time believing you can learn college level (AP) math without homework and The Atlantic just published an article bemoaning the fact that kids going to college no longer know how to read a book over the course of a few weeks for class. So many schools aren't meeting the standard of mastery. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does less scheduled also mean you don't supplement much at home? I'm not very happy with our public school, and I'm thinking of adding some work at home. Nothing major, just a page of math and spelling a few times a week, maybe 20 minutes a day. Basically things I think he should be learning at school. Is everyone already doing this, and I just don't know...?

I did spelling, handwriting, and got them books from the library that just happened to supplement science and history but were also fun to read. Math was fine (for my kids) once they were in advanced math starting in 3rd. Now we're in private and I don't have to do any of that except the books - because I like doing that more than because I have to - because the school is doing it.

In my circles it was probably 1/3rd of people who supplement. At least one private school parent and the rest public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My three children are now in their mid to late 30s and they are doing very well! We never over scheduled them and we just let them do what they wanted to do which was not crazy. None of them were crazy about sports though they did participate. We encouraged it but didn’t drive it. They definitely pursued their own interests which we supported. We did encourage them to be good students and they were.

Wow you are old

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp again. I do think you can get away with no studying in middle school but not high school AP classes.

I agree. The poster that mentioned all the APs with no work is not being truthful. They are a troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pp again. I do think you can get away with no studying in middle school but not high school AP classes.

I agree. The poster that mentioned all the APs with no work is not being truthful. They are a troll.

Or their kid is such a quick worker they get everything done in study hall.