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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could you share about how much time they need to spend on homework during an average week? After watching the presentation last night, I'm trying to figure out how their schedule would impact our family. Extended day until 3:25, then an hour before the bus will arrive to take them on a 1- 1.5 hour ride home (it appears for our neighborhood). If they don't get home until close to 6, I'm concerned about time to complete the work and still do other activities they are involved in right now.[/quote]

OP here, yes my child gets home around 5:30. My child does hw/studies for test until almost every night 12-1 am. And then wakes up again at 6 am. It’s tiring and grueling and the culture there is all the students are obsessed with grades and scoring high(good majority of them brag about their scores and makes those who do poorly feel bad, ) not about the actual learning process. The higher scoring kids would say I did so bad…..then reveal they really they got like a 48/50, and make those who scored lower feel bad about their score,  It was a shock to my child (the workload and the bragging students) she came from the magnet middle school and saw none of that there. 
No one told us last year how much work these kids actually have to do, it’s crazy that a 14/15 yr old is expected to do this much work.
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