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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7th grader Holton. [b]Max is 30min a subject so with 4-5 classes would be 2-2.5hrs.[/b] They have a 6 day cycle with a drop day for each subject.  So she only has all 5 classes once in a 6 day cycle. I think it is balanced well and she is usually done in less than 2hrs because she utilizes study hall and no phone or tv in her room. [/quote]

yeah but 30 minutes for what type of kid?  Mine is just slow, slow, slow at homework.  Plods along, doing it well, but slowly.  And this is always the way it was, even before any type of screen to slow her down.  So what takes your kid 30 minutes takes mine an hour.  It's still too much. [/quote]

In athletics, I had to practice a lot more than many of the other kids to master skills.  I wanted it, so I practiced, and I actually got pretty good and ended up going further than the kids for whom it was easy.  It's not such a bad thing to learn that you have to work harder than others to succeed -- that mindset can be very powerful down the road.

With that said, if she's doing the homework "too well" given the time commitment, can you talk to her about trying to be more efficient and not worry quite as much about how it turns out?[/quote]

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