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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the poster on page 1 who said her 15-year-old sophomore has 4-5 hours of HW a night & gets very little sleep.  She never uses her phone (she doesn't text--yes, she's unusual--and she doesn't call people), she doesn't have any social media interest at all (no Facebook page or anything similar), and she's typically sitting near me in the study while she's working.  She's a diligent geek who genuinely enjoys her studies & wants to do well, but it's simply too much.

Sometimes I help her go over her AP Gov work, and I can attest to the fact that AP Gov alone is a good 2 hours of reading & note-taking every single night (not to mention studying).  Alg 2/Trig takes at least another 45 minutes every night, and Chemistry is another 45 minutes.  That's 3 1/2 hours right there, and then there are still English, Genetics, Latin & Engineering classes.  And that schedule is with only 1 AP class.

Oh, and there are long-term projects, too, such as a science project that's going to suck up weeks of time until the science fair in February.  It's crazymaking.  [/quote]

2 hours for AP gov sounds like a lot. Maybe she needs to figure out how to speed that up?  I know schools and kids are different but mine took AP Gov in 9th grade, got an A in the class and a 5 on the test, and spent maybe 30 mins on homework/night. AP gov was a breeze compared to AP US History and especially AP World. [/quote]

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