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Anonymous wrote:Why would you take 5 or 7 AP's senior year.

In MCPS you literally need 1 class to graduate once you are a senior.

To go to college? Colleges want to see a progression of classes so if you've been taking honors/APs you can't drop down to on level your senior year.

That is absolteuly ridiculous. If some child is taking 7 APs their senior year....their school counseling (forgetting the parents) is completely faltering. If you have gone to any college open house (and that's top tier), they've made it clear that type of load is NOT necessary. A good sporadic spread of APs both junior and senior year on a variety of subject,s prefaby those of itnerest to the student is all that is necessary. I bet that kid will be telling eveyone in future about his/her's wonderul high schools. What fun.

Anonymous wrote:SSSAS - 3 hrs, 11th

Thank you for being the only person to answer the question.

Sheridan, 8th grade. 1-2 hours

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Anonymous wrote:Walter Johnson, all AP classes. !2th grade. Average is 3-4 hours.

Wow - so your DC is taking 7 APs? Mine is taking 5 and it seems like a lot. Also has about 4 hours of homework a night. Plus after school sports.

Oh sorry, I was mistaken. It's 6 APs plus a second foreign language (level 5) plus a sport. Yeah, it's a very full schedule but fortunately he's a pretty organized kid. OTOH, I have another child in HS and no way would they be able to handle this load. It really depends on the kid, IMO.

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?

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Anonymous wrote:Aim low, it's the new American way.

You are clearly completely ignorant about how useless homework is. Might want to read something about that before you post stupid comments.

Are you seriously arguing that students:
1. Should never write papers outside of class time?
2. Should never read novels outside of class time?
3. Should never read a history textbook, monagraph, or primary source document outside of class?
4. Should not work on practicing their grammar or vocabulary in a foreign language?
5. Should not practice math or physics problems sets outside of class?

Please don't change the topic. The question is, how many hours of HW per night, what grade, what school. There is another threat on the value or lack of value of homework. Please post there is you want to argue. Please post here to answer the questions.

It's the internet. If I question the premise of your anonymous thread, I'm going to anonymously post something that conveys my skepticism. It's relevant by my lights. If it's not relevant by yours . . . well, it's the internet, and you started an anonymous thread.

You're right, PP, the Internet enables you to be an a**hole. It does not require you to be an a**hole, however. You made your point. Now please go away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aim low, it's the new American way.

You are clearly completely ignorant about how useless homework is. Might want to read something about that before you post stupid comments.

Are you seriously arguing that students:
1. Should never write papers outside of class time?
2. Should never read novels outside of class time?
3. Should never read a history textbook, monagraph, or primary source document outside of class?
4. Should not work on practicing their grammar or vocabulary in a foreign language?
5. Should not practice math or physics problems sets outside of class?

Please don't change the topic. The question is, how many hours of HW per night, what grade, what school. There is another threat on the value or lack of value of homework. Please post there is you want to argue. Please post here to answer the questions.

It's the internet. If I question the premise of your anonymous thread, I'm going to anonymously post something that conveys my skepticism. It's relevant by my lights. If it's not relevant by yours . . . well, it's the internet, and you started an anonymous thread.

SSSAS - 3 hrs, 11th

Argh. Please, please only post in this thread if you are answering OP's question. Please!

This post is so helpful to people trying to understand what to expect, in regards to time and grade at a school. Thanks in advacne for posting- we are looking at GDS, Potomac, St StA, Sidwell, and BUrke- and i have no idea what the "real" homework load is. So pros/cons of hw aside, greatly appreciate people responding with school/grade/amt of homework!

Anonymous wrote:Why would you take 5 or 7 AP's senior year.

In MCPS you literally need 1 class to graduate once you are a senior.

To go to college? Colleges want to see a progression of classes so if you've been taking honors/APs you can't drop down to on level your senior year.

Why would you take 5 or 7 AP's senior year.

In MCPS you literally need 1 class to graduate once you are a senior.

Anonymous wrote:Walter Johnson, all AP classes. !2th grade. Average is 3-4 hours.

Wow - so your DC is taking 7 APs? Mine is taking 5 and it seems like a lot. Also has about 4 hours of homework a night. Plus after school sports.

Of course in college, you aren't spending all day in class and you're only taking four courses at a time.

And there's no commute time, you live within a short walk of the library and sports facilities and language labs, you've got no family obligations, and it's easy to get together with friends/classmates to study, do group projects, etc

Right, so the point I'm making is that maybe people should scale back on the AP classes. What is the point of a class being AP if it isn't really college level? Why take AP classes in every academic subject if you can't handle it?

Plus, there are people who attend commuter colleges and live at home (my brother did this--he needed to commute an hour each way) which nullifies your point about commuting and family obligations. There are also students who need to work part time to help pay for college and living expenses. There are some campuses where there is not enough dorm space for everyone to live on campus, so commuting might need to happen anyway. There are also students who get involved in research or athletics for 20+ hours a week outside of their classes. There are exceptional students who overload and take five or six classes because they want to graduate in 3 years or double major. And so on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aim low, it's the new American way.

You are clearly completely ignorant about how useless homework is. Might want to read something about that before you post stupid comments.

Are you seriously arguing that students:
1. Should never write papers outside of class time?
2. Should never read novels outside of class time?
3. Should never read a history textbook, monagraph, or primary source document outside of class?
4. Should not work on practicing their grammar or vocabulary in a foreign language?
5. Should not practice math or physics problems sets outside of class?

Please don't change the topic. The question is, how many hours of HW per night, what grade, what school. There is another threat on the value or lack of value of homework. Please post there is you want to argue. Please post here to answer the questions.

Of course in college, you aren't spending all day in class and you're only taking four courses at a time.

And there's no commute time, you live within a short walk of the library and sports facilities and language labs, you've got no family obligations, and it's easy to get together with friends/classmates to study, do group projects, etc.