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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand all these posts about excessive homework and studying. Granted, I have a sophomore and I understand junior year is more intense, but he is in all honors and AP classes at one of the top FCPS high schools, getting all As and I see him do maybe 30 minutes of homework/studying outside of school.

He’s not brilliant or anything and only normal-level organized. Why are so many kids spending so much time on class work (obviously taking out kids who have learning disabilities)?

My initial reaction is that it’s a great week to assign a test or some extra homework since they have Wednesday afternoon off! Surprised to see people complaining. 
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I have a sophomore taking all honors and 3 APs. She's normally a straight A student, but has a couple of A- right now. She has an extraordinary amount of work, because she has terrible teachers, and is essentially teaching herself the content in all her AP classes. Which means that she sits in classes for 7 hours a day trying to make sense of it all, then has to spend 3-4 hours at home self studying to actually understand the material, and then spends hours doing homework (she tries to read/study ahead, before going to class, but some of the teachers are so bad, they confuse the kids about materials they already know). Typically, she has something like 40 problems to do for two of her classes, and each one is due the next class. On top of that, she has her ECs too. All this is translating to essentially working non-stop until she goes to bed, including doing her work in the car.

This week is not terrible because she has extra hours to study on Wednesday. But there are two summatives, two formatives, and a writing assignment on Thursday/Friday. For one of the summatives, the teacher hasn't even taught the material yet, so I'm assuming there will be a short lecture, followed by testing on that material.[/quote]

+1 you’ve just described us too. It’s horrible. I really wish admin would tell the teachers to lighten up with the constant formative assignments - they are so time consuming but worth nothing. And stop assigning 40 goddamn math problems due the next class - 20 is fine. [/quote]

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