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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect the honor roll kids are super self starter kids--and their parents are heavily involved in their homework, despite their protestations here and elsewhere. It is very fashionable to say, "oh I don't care how or what my kid's homework is" at the JKLM schools, I've noticed. Since pre-k, everyone acts very detached but the reality is they are constantly pushing the kids. It's insane. The demands on family time are just increasing--6 hours school day+1 hour study hall +2 hours of homework= barely enough time to sleep, dress, eat and poop. Forget hanging out in a non stressful way with your parents or friends. [/quote]

I noticed the same thing.[/quote]

I really don't know what world you folks live in, but it's not the same as ours.  Our OOB Deal 6th grader has time for lengthy sports practice 3 days a week, 45 min. of piano practicing every day, a couple of after-school classes, and homework, we have family dinner together every night, and DC is always in bed before 9.  And she commutes 45 min. each way to school.  And she's on the honor roll, and we don't do ANYTHING to help with her homework.  I occasionally check Edline to see if she has missed anything, and she occasionally asks for help on a math problem she doesn't understand, but that's the extent of it.  When I told her about the complaints on this thread about having no free time, she thought that was crazy and pointed out that she has plenty of free time.  Yes, she's pretty good at keeping up with things, but she actually had much more trouble at JKLM because the teacher was so much less organized and because, as one PP noted, they didn't really teach the kids management and organizations skills the way that they seem to do at Deal.  I think the complaining parents on this board need to look at little harder at how their children are actually spending their time (too much screen time?) before blaming teachers.  We would really resent it if the teachers stopped giving interesting special assignments because your child has major organizational or ADHD problems.  Because most of these negative posts seems like so much finger-pointing, without much if any basis in reality.[/quote]

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