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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much does a kid have to love math to tolerate having a longer school day than everyone else?[/quote]

The Long day is brutal, you have to REALLY love math. Kids wake up at 5:30-6 am to take a 6:45 bus and many don’t get home until 5-5:30 pm. It’s ridiculous that the hardest program at Poolesville is the one with the longest day. Many kids don’t go to bed until like 1 a.m. almost everyday, not just several times a quarter before a big test/project. It’s almost everyday on very little sleep.[/quote]

DP. The lack of sleep is true. I didn’t understand why then , but now I realize it’s Bc in many classes the kids have to teach themselves material and learn on their own Bc the teachers are really lacking in that teaching department. [/quote]

My kid did SMAC plus a sport and rarely was up so late.  It just depends on study habits.  He tried to be as productive as possible at lunch,on the am bus, in the car after track, and any spare seconds in class.[/quote]

OP here, that’s what we heard too, many times, when my child was in 8th grade, “ that it depends on study habits and it’s not too much work”. 
That’s NOT true, I have been watching my child for the past 2 months and my child has been nothing but a hardworking,dedicated student. It’s too much work too stressful for any 14/15 year old to have.[/quote]

Well each kid is different...some kids can work faster.  I have two kids.  Both are hardworking and dedicated.  Only one was in SMAC.  The other would not have slept.[/quote]

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