They all finish it during the school day.

Anonymous wrote:What this thread shows is there is little consistency in the work ethic and challenge expectations from teachers across MS. I certainly get that some students are slower in some subjects and others are faster, but there’s no reason they all shouldn’t be assigning books, essays, problems to solve etc.

In our middle school, they do, but many students complete this in class after the main lesson is over or in study hall (which is 3 times a week).

What this thread shows is there is little consistency in the work ethic and challenge expectations from teachers across MS. I certainly get that some students are slower in some subjects and others are faster, but there’s no reason they all shouldn’t be assigning books, essays, problems to solve etc.

This thread brings me some relief. We are headed to MS and do not like HW. (And do not worry about “later on” when there is literally a different brain at work.)

Almost none.

My kid has often spent 1hr/night on homework but some nights has none. My kid is very capable but slower with reading and writing tasks so she often has work to finish up at home, especially in English, that other kids finish in class. She is also too focused on keeping high As abs studies more than she probably needs to. She basically never has homework over the weekend and is mortally offended if an assignment requires weekend work.

Mine didn't receive much homework in middle school. It made the transition to 9th grade very challenging. They were not well prepared.

Anonymous wrote:OP here- thanks that aligns with what I am seeing with my boys. They mostly finish their hw at school and I hardly ever see them do much at home. Maybe some review for a quiz once in a while. Met a parent recently who was complaining of how much time her DC was spending on hw(hours and hours?).

Could also be the level of the coursework being assigned. My kid coasted through math up until now, but Honors Geometry grade 8 (normal grade 10 in the common core curriculum) has been much more work and his teacher said it's "where A students become C students if they don't put the effort in."

Depends on the teacher too. My kid had a difficult teacher for English in grade 7 who assigned tons of writing, more difficult texts and spent a lot of time on that subject. In grade 8, I barely see him doing any work at all, most everything is multiple choice, and he has a much higher grade with a lot less work.

The reverse has been true for world language. He coasted through WL in grade 7 with a high grade and lots of multiple choice, and is now getting clobbered with a much more rigorous teacher who dings him for every missed accent and every misspelling and every grammatically incorrect sentence in grade 8 with a lot of essay writing.

OP here- thanks that aligns with what I am seeing with my boys. They mostly finish their hw at school and I hardly ever see them do much at home. Maybe some review for a quiz once in a while. Met a parent recently who was complaining of how much time her DC was spending on hw(hours and hours?).

Kid has never had more than 15 minutes a day except one science project. I don’t include 20 minutes a day of instrument practice as homework but that’s expected too. (Band is the only class with consistent homework - go figure!)

All advanced classes (where available) and strong grades.

Depends entirely on processing speed, OP.

My kid with slow processing speed and severe inattentive ADHD basically took up all available time to do homework. Without a foreign language.

My kid who took Algebra 1 and Spanish 1A and B in 6th grade hardly ever did homework at home, she did it during class (sometimes not the class for that subject). She only started to have daily homework at home when she was in high school and doing AP classes.

Mine is pretty efficient and manages to get quite a bit done during the day, but I'm still surprised how little he has, even with a foreign language all three years.

I think this depends on how efficient your kid is. Mine is not and doesn’t get as much done in school as others do. There is about an hour of hw a night.

How much time have your kiddos been spending on homework in middle school, especially if they are taking a foreign language. Thanks.