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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where did the idea that 3 hours of homework per night is a good thing come from? That sounds dreadful. I sure as hell didn't do that of work when I was a kid in public school, and look at me now -- gainfully employed, successful in the workplace, making good money. [/quote]

Homework being a good thing is less about the amount of time it takes and more about the sheer amount of repetition required to learn anything (as proven again, and again, and again by neuroscience and ignored by many education "experts"). Homework should be the amount of work required to get to mastery on material taught - not more, not less.[/quote]
APS is very focused on mastery, but IMO doesn't have kids practice certain skills enough in elementary.  Mostly, I think kids need a lot more repetition of math skills and to spend more time reading and writing than APS requires. I've supplemented math to add repetition in elementary, for fluency and speed, and my kids are big readers.  I haven't had as much success supplementing writing, but it is what it is.

In APS 6th grade pre-algebra my kid has had a ton of math practice because they're trying to have the kids to all of the IXL lessons for 6th, 7th and 8th grade all in one year.  It's been excellent practice.  I don't know if that pace will continue, but so far MS has picked up the pace from elementary expectations in a good way, at least in math.

(Cue the obnoxious parents who say their budding genius doesn't need to practice math ever--they are naturally a human calculator.  As a STEM PhD married to an engineer, I disagree for all but actual genius-prodigies.  Nearly all students need to do a lot of math problems to become fully fluent.)[/quote]

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