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[quote=Anonymous]"This may sound harsh but I believe that the smarter the kid, the less HW each night because they more quickly understand the topic and material. The rigor of the curriculum is more of a struggle for the less naturally bright students who prep'ed and prep'ed and prep'ed for the admissions test and had help with their essay (you know who you are). It will be even more of a struggle for those students who get in based more on the "peer group" criteria than aptitude. If the county implements the "peer group" criteria for Blair SMES, the entire program will change for the worse.

It sounds both harsh and inaccurate.

From my anecdotal observations - in HS - this is both harsh and inaccurate.

Sounds logical to me..... Since homework assigned is a constant - The smarter the kid, the easier the homework. The dumber the kid, the harder the homework.

My guess is that the PP's who say "inaccurate" probably spent a shmit-ton of cash on the magnet prep courses and think this made their kid amazingly gifted. I guess it made their kids used to doing 4hrs of homework a night while others spend 2hrs a night."

Often for students that get into Blair SMAC, the amount of homework has NOTHING to do with intelligence and lots to do with Parkinson's law.  The work expands to fill the available time.

If they have 4 hours per day to devote to HW then it takes 4 hours.  If they have 2 hours, it takes 2 hours.

I'm not the poster from above, but my DC certainly had periods in 9, 10 and 11 where they did 4 hours of HW per day for weeks on end.

Then they would get sick of it or a sport season would start or maybe most importantly during 2nd and 4th quarter, they only needed a B to match up with their A from 1st or 3rd quarter.[/quote]

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