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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it’s an AAP Center. Is it a very high pressure school? What are homework levels like? Thanks.[/quote]
My son is an AAP student in the 8th grade at RCMS. He's consistently been involved in 1 or 2 afterschool programs. He's in swimming three days a week and does meets throughout the season. He plays clarinet in the school band and is practicing a saxophone we rented for him as I type. He also games on his laptop and/or XBOX every day. [b]He goes to bed by 11pm each night[/b] and has a 4.0. He says he gets lots of work, but he's never pulled all-nighters the way I had to when I was in middle school. His two best friends at RCMS are also in AAP and have a similar amount of activities. I don't know if they feel bogged down by homework [b]and perhaps lost sleep over it[/b], but they all seem very happy to be at Carson.[/quote]

Don't middle schools in FCPS start really early? Wouldn't that mean that he's only getting a maximum of 7.5 hours of sleep each night? I don't have middle schoolers (yet) so curious if kids that age can handle that little sleep. High school I could see it happen, but middle school seems like it would affect them.[/quote]

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