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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach your kid to finish most of the homework at school.  My kids did their homework in the classroom, during lunch, on the school bus.   And they were in competitive magnet STEM program. [/quote]

This.

[b]Most kids are given a lot of time during the school day to be free[/b].  If your kid goofs off, socializes or zones out it is a missed opportunity.

Have two in high school and both go to bed 9:45-10:30 timeframe.  They also are really good about when they get home from sports finishing up any work they did not get done during the day.[/quote]

Might depend on the classes. As far as I can tell, this doesn't seem to be how DD's classes have been working. Her math class for instance, assigns about 15 pages of problems each session, on average. And the teacher gets super pissed if the kids start working on this in class, instead of focusing on whatever she's asking them to do. One of her other classes on that day assigns about a chapter of reading a week (40-50 pages) and about 45 problems a week. The third one is just note taking, so it's usually only about 20-30 pages per session. When you add in all the quizzes and tests, there is no earthly way to prep for everything during the school day; the only "free time" she has is about 45 minutes every other day during advisory, and once she starts tutoring for honor society, that's gone as well. As it is, she's usually doing her work in the car on her way to places, and still ends up having to stay up late some nights.[/quote]

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