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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much does a kid have to love math to tolerate having a longer school day than everyone else?[/quote]

The Long day is brutal, you have to REALLY love math. Kids wake up at 5:30-6 am to take a 6:45 bus and many don’t get home until 5-5:30 pm. It’s ridiculous that the hardest program at Poolesville is the one with the longest day. Many kids don’t go to bed until like 1 a.m. almost everyday, not just several times a quarter before a big test/project. It’s almost everyday on very little sleep.[/quote]

Yes, chronic lack of sleep can be a thing for some kids. Thankfully, for both my SMCS alum kids, DH and I juggled work so that they did not have to take the bus. We dropped and picked them up by car. We shaved at least 1.5 hours from commuting for them. It made a big difference. Another thing was that my kids usually had 2-3 hours of homework each night, but they were in bed by 9pm most days.  My DS played video games with his friends so he slept a little later, after I yelled at him.  But he was in bed by 10 pm. Up by 6:40 am.  Napping on the way to school.  Napping on the way back home. Napping for an hour after coming back from school etc.

Also, my kids basically were just studying, doing ECs, self-care and sleeping.  They did not do any chores at home. We were pretty much doing everything for them to make things easy. Their time became very precious and we really had to always keep that in mind.  No smoking, no vaping, no partying and no dating.   Once they were accepted in college in Senior year -  suddenly everything eased up. [/quote]

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