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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't misunderstand the word homework. Perhaps substitute the word studying. If you want to send your kid to a school where the only learning that happens occurs in the short time they are in the classroom with no studying required, then why bother going to high school at all? Get an online GED and save the commute.[/quote]

While I think you can have [i]most[/i] work happen during the school day, I agree that "studying" makes more sense than "homework" in the HS context.

I went to a super intense NE boarding school, and it wasn't like "homework" was designed to take a certain amount of time. It was highly dependent on how you managed it.

In English classes, for example, you were either reading or working on an essay due in 1-2 weeks. In math, you were working through a problem set or studying for a test. There was basically no busy work, and how long you spent on anything depended on how fast you read or how comfortable you were with the concepts. You could study for an exam all weekend or you could cram the night before. College was a breeze after this because I already knew how to plan out backwards from a big deadline totally on my own. (That said, I don't think HS needs to be this intense to be effective and I doubt my kids will be going to this same school.)

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