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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an ES and MS student. They barely have hw. What they have is quickly finished.[/quote]

My ES kid has next to nothing.  My MS kid has 2-3 hours a day this year but a lot of it comes from his accelerated classes.[/quote]

Is your MS student in a magnet?

Mine is in honors geometry, honors French 3, and whatever the HIGH class for 8th grade is called and definitely does not have that level of homework. At most a 1/2 hour a night. But we are at our local school.[/quote]

Nope- at our local school.  Maybe your kid is fast or maybe your kid’s teachers aren’t assigning much,  but my kid’s 8th honor geo teacher said at open house that there is about 45 min of homework per night on average and that has been accurate for my kid.  The 8th grade HIGH class often has essays and PPTs and readings that take a good chunk of time as well.  My kid is in Spanish 3A (not sure if that’s the equivalent of honors 3 French) and that has had a good amount of homework too (in 6th and 7th grade there was very little).  And the other classes sometimes have no homework but sometimes have 20 min of assignments/ assigned readings.  So yeah 2-3 hours on average.  [/quote]

Wow! My kid gets just a couple of homework problems a night for honors geo, takes maybe 10 mins (but this is a kid who just "gets" geometry - which he did not have passed down from me). The HIGH equivalent at our school has literally no homework ever; the teacher said at BTSN that this was for "equity" (which I really don't understand). It is a cohorted class at our school but clearly a bit of a joke.

I'm worried that HS will be a rough transition for my kid.[/quote]

I have observed that classes at McPS schools can really vary in rigor depending on the teacher.  Last year the toughest most time intensive class for my kid was non-cohorted English class, because the teacher assigned a ton of writing assignments, texts that were harder than the standard McPS texts and graded pretty strictly. A year later my kid has an English class that is mostly multiple choice assignments that are done in class, minimal homework other than reading a few chapters here and there and says it’s a breeze.

Similarly, grade 7 algebra wasn’t hard for my kid but Honors Geometry is requiring a ton of effort.   The teacher characterized it as a class where many A students become C students. But maybe it would be easier with a different teacher.  Or maybe your kid is just really good at geometry.   [/quote]

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