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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 10th grader doing all AP classes does not have hours of homework.

My other kid, now in college, took the entire afternoon and evening to do his homework, in elementary, middle and high school. He had a processing speed measured at the 4th percentile, with inattentive ADHD and autism.

If your kids are taking hours to do homework, OP, and they're not doing 6 AP courses at the same time... you need to worry about processing speed and possible ADHD, because the two are often closely linked. They might need a diagnosis to get a 504 and extended time.

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Spare us your dime store diagnosis. The teachers of my kids’ classes have said they assign a lot of homework in high school.    That some kids in a massive school district have lots of homework and that their experience isn’t identical to the two kids you parented  does not mean that their experience was false or that they have a learning disorder if they spend time studying.

And just because your child is enrolled in “all AP classes in the 10th grade” and isn’t studying doesn’t make your child an exemplar.  There are plenty of kids enrolled in AP classes who don’t prepare well and don’t do well on the independently evaluated exams at the end of the year.  [/quote]

PP you replied to.

I know a lot more than you, sorry. Also, I am trying to help OP. There is no way, even with a crazy teacher who assigns way more work than usual, that any middle schooler should have hours of homework. Just no way. The only time it happens is when a child has low processing speed. So I am telling OP: please get help now, before the kid starts struggling in high school, or getting depressed over their workload.

Finally, do not attack my child for no reason. She's a straight A student who gets 5s on her AP exams (she had AP exams already in 9th grade). I wrote about her to illustrate that my kids embody the two extremes of functionality.

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You’re ignorant if you think that your two kids enable you to make a universal conclusion about the amount of homework students across a massive school district, with disparities in rigor across schools and individual teachers.

And you’re delusional if you think that getting a 5 in one or two AP classes in 9th grade means that your child will automagically get 5s in all of their 10th grade APs.  If you bothered to look at the data for MCPS student performance across APs exam scores, you wouldn’t be so sure to be bragging about your kid who has just completed MP1.[/quote]

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