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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Those who think that kind of "hard work" is what gets you ahead in life, don't be fooled. In meaningful college and job applications, it's many a times the "what makes someone special" that gets attention and merit. Sure there are test scores to account for but that's only half the story. Working on homework until midnight on a regular basis is not making anyone's child special. What can make a child "special" is things like holding youth leadership positions, writing a book, organizing a campaign or food drive, going abroad for a year, making it through the ranks in a youth orchestra, dealing with adversity, putting together and executing a business plan etc.[/quote]

Yeah sure, and if this is your philosophy on education, then don't send your kids to a charter school started with the express purpose of demanding a lot of kids, putting them multiple years above grade level, teaching calculus as early as 8th grade, and reading Beowulf in 5th grade.  Sending your kids to a school that is set up for acceleration above everything else and then complaining about how there is too much homework seems kind of strange to me.  Some kids will be up to the challenge of an intense pace, and even up for staying up until midnight every night in middle school.  Most won't.  This is why schools like BASIS are not for everyone.[/quote]

Nonsense.  Parents who send their children to the most exclusive private schools in the DC area, as well as test-in magnets such as TJ are also unhappy about the amount of homework their children are getting.

See this thread in the private school forum, for example:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/331923.page

It doesn't mean the OP's child doesn't belong at the school or that OP made the wrong choice.  There is plenty of evidence to suggest that this generation of students really is receiving too much homework.  The comments from the Professor with the Ivy undergrad and PhD were enlightening, as was the Atlantic article referenced in the first post.

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