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[quote=Anonymous]"If it's 4 hours in 10th grade, what is it in 11th and 12th?"

Homework in 11th and 12th grade is much more variable as there are many more electives.  Some students are taking PE or art requirements or foreign language.  Some are taking full AP course load for the other 3 or 4 courses.

Even in 9th and 10th there is a distinct group that intentionally doesn't care about non-magnet classes and takes regular level English and drops foreign language early in order to avoid the "busy" work in subjects they care less about.

There can be a big difference between the workload in a class like "Software Design".  Some students will pair up and pick something reasonable, other will take standard level English and History in order to work 10 hours a day (yes, really) on their master piece.

I would say in general that there is less work in 11 and 12.  Of course, every year there a couple that try to take a set of courses that no one has ever done before and ends up working 5 or 6 hours per night, despite the teachers' best efforts to talk them out of it.

"Does Takoma cover that much more than the rest of the county? That's a little hard to believe."

First most of TP magnet gets through H Alg II.  Well at least they used to, I am not sure about this years 8th grade.

Next, the same cohort effect that drives all the effort for the students from the other schools in 9 and 10 works at the TP magnet in middle school to get them a lead.

I would say that just about all of the TP magnets give that lead back.  No matter how advanced or driven you are in 7th grade, as an 11th grader, you are easily capable of twice as much.[/quote]

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