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Everyone knows that kids who succeed at Basis need to be smart and motivated.  What a lot of people don't seem to know is that the kids who tend to be fast workers will be much more successful than the  equally bright kids who just tend to work a bit slower.  Homework loads can range from 20 minutes/day(my kids) - 4 hours/day depending on your child's efficiency.  [/quote]

I don’t understand how that can be true. There’s a massibe difference between 20 minutes and 4 hours. [/quote]

Most of the classes have built in time to finish some of the work.  So, Kid A is efficient and diligent and spends those 15-20 minutes per class finishing homework. Kid A also utilizes the full 30 minutes of study hall to finish work.  Kid B talks with friends, doodles, or otherwise gets distracted and doesn't use any of that time.  That's already 2-3 hours of work that Kid A has already finished and Kid B still needs to do.  That isn't even accounting for different working speeds.

My 7th grader has about 20 minutes of homework per night and gets mostly As.  Other kids on our school's parent forum complain that their 7th graders have hours of homework every night.  [/quote]

Agree that this sums things up nicely.  Fortunately my 6th grader is very motivated to knock things out during the day/class periods.  She rarely has any homework other than the math problem set.[/quote]

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