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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And what improvements have we seen as the result of all of these changes? Anyone? I'm seeing NO IMPROVEMENT in my child's education. He comes home more tired than ever, looking forward to weekends and days off. Dreads coming home to an hour of homework every night before he can do what he wants to do. 7 hours in school, an hour of homework and around 30 minutes getting to and from school. Now we have longer school days and they want to make the school year longer too? For what? What benefit are we seeing? None here! [/quote]

Why does it take a half hour for your son to get to school?  [/quote]

My middle schooler's bus ride is nearly 40 minutes with traffic. [/quote]

NP here. Sorry, you missed the point. The second poster is trying to bait the first into saying that her son goes to an AAP center, which usually involves long bus rides. Then this thread can devolve into AAP hating.[/quote]

My child's bus ride to our neighborhood school a mile from our house is 30 minutes.  It's the traffic and we are one of the first pickups.[/quote]

It's the traffic. Honestly, the right around half an hour bus ride doesn't seem too bad at least for us. By middle school my kids are thankfully able to strategically pick out homework that can be done on the bus, thus reducing the workload that is left to handle at home.

We were lucky the elementary commute was a bit shorter, because longer transit times definitely were harder when the kids were younger plus they still needed more assistance with homework and were less able to use the time productively. Maybe PP's son could save any homework that's only reading to do during the ride to school? Depending on what his homework is like currently that may reduce the hour per evening to a more manageable level.[/quote]

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