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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two factors that are different today are:

1.  If you are a good athlete (defined as someone who might want to play at the college level), the time demands of playing club -- which admittedly vary by sport -- are far more significant than a generation ago.

2.  The means of distraction are exponentially greater than "when we were kids."  A smart phone is, essentially, an entertainment center.  Talk to your friends, text your friends, tweet to your friends, Facebook your friends, watch YouTube links sent by your friends, text some more, send YouTube links to your friends, listen to Spotify, text your friends some more.  (And that's not even getting us started on video games, more an issue with boys.) In my day (yes I said "in my day" good lord!), there was TV (didn't have one in my room), the telephone (parents knew if I was on it), and radio (actually helped me study, probably).

Even the most diligent students, unless they turn off their "screens" (phone, tablet, PC) during study time, burn a lot of time with "short distraction" that may add up to an extra hour or more (being conservative) during the "five hours of homework."  If you're up for a little battle, or even better if your child is willing to try it voluntarily, try embargoing screens during homework for first a night, then a couple consecutively.  It really makes a big difference, and unless they need to type they often won't really need a computer for most nightly homework.

I still think schools need to think about how to get kids to work "smart" not just "hard," and I'm not judgmental about the distractions -- but I know how much time I can waste at work if I decide to surf the internet, and (theoretically) I've got the self-discipline to decide when I can do that and when I can't.[/quote]

ITA as to #2.  [/quote]

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