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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent StA grad told me that in HS  he was at school from 7:30-7 with sports and then had 4-5 hours of homework. Does this sound right?[/quote]

No. Medical field calls that abusive. It is[/quote]

It does not sound accurate for St. Albans.  A little bit atypical on the sports side in terms of staying at school until 7 pm, although, depending upon where a student lives, getting HOME at 7-7:30 pm is accurate (and students who do both sports and theatrical productions can be at school until 9 pm).

Not typical on the homework end.  Either the student was not using time during the day (for example, there is generally 1-1.5 hours between the end of lunch and start of sports); or 4-5 hours was the time spent in the bedroom, but with the considerable distractions (see some of the prior posts); or possibly the student took the most rigorous course selection and struggled somewhat with the material.

My college friend teaches there and mentioned that a couple of years ago asked a Chinese exchange student at STA what was a typical amount of time spent on homework at the student's "home" school in China.  When the student replied "five hours" the STA kids in the class went crazy with disbelief, shock, and horror (it was funny, my friend said).  The typical STA boy just does not spend that much time on homework.  However, with sports, and even more if they are into the arts, they are definitely very very busy.[/quote]

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