Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 09:11     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Supplemental homework and tutoring, including art/music. Exercise. Intellectually stimulating games, not brainrot.

It's social because some or all of us are home together.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 09:11     Subject: Re:Middle schoolers after school
If he isn't at travel practice, he's usually practicing at home, training/exercising for his sport or outside playing sports with his friends. Occasionally, he might play video games, but he mostly plays sports inside and outside with his siblings, friends, or me. The cold doesn't seem to bother him and his friends, they're always out there.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 09:04     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
DS doesn't get home until 4:30/4:45. Typically has 1-1.5 hours worth of HW. He usually has a snack and then does HW before dinner. He also has sports practice/training for outside teams 3 nights. No gaming during the week, but he does watch TV/mess around on his phone when he has downtime.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 08:56     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should be doing homework in MS.


Public middle schools do not give homework. Maybe some kids have unfinished classwork because they goofed off or didn’t understand, but otherwise there is no HW beyond reviewing for tests.


Lol okay cool story. I have a kid in MS who absolutely has a real amount of HW every night- not because she goofed off or didn't understand. It's work- she's assigned to do- at home :0
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 08:49     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aside from sports and HW she mostly watches Netflix. She gets good grades so I’m okay with it. I used to watch Saved By the Bell marathons on TBS.

Ha! Me too!


In MS I had discovered soap operas so I would come home after school and have a marathon viewing of my VHS-taped All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.


I got seriously addicted to Oprah and then later Days of our Lives. Such fond memories. I turned out okay.


General Hospital, but in HS.


Oprah + Santa Barbara here. (Anyone old enough to remember Robin Wright as Kelly Capwell? She was great, even back then!)
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 08:44     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
DS has a school sport after school in the fall. The other two seasons he does not. But all but one of his friends do, so they’re not available to hang out, unfortunately.

Our rule is no PS5 during the school week (Mon-Thurs). DS does homework (does not have much) and then is free to chill. Sometimes watches a show on Netflix, but mostly he watches YouTube (soccer and cooking videos) on his iPad and listens to music.

Some afternoons he’ll run on the treadmill in the basement for 30 minutes, occasionally he’ll go to the JCC with the friend who’s not doing a school sport, and sometimes we’ll work on dinner or other food together if I’m not on a call.

But mostly he chills solo from 3:30-6. Then dinner and club soccer at 7:30 two of the four nights. It’s fine.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 21:26     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aside from sports and HW she mostly watches Netflix. She gets good grades so I’m okay with it. I used to watch Saved By the Bell marathons on TBS.

Ha! Me too!


In MS I had discovered soap operas so I would come home after school and have a marathon viewing of my VHS-taped All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.


I got seriously addicted to Oprah and then later Days of our Lives. Such fond memories. I turned out okay.


General Hospital, but in HS.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 21:23     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aside from sports and HW she mostly watches Netflix. She gets good grades so I’m okay with it. I used to watch Saved By the Bell marathons on TBS.

Ha! Me too!


In MS I had discovered soap operas so I would come home after school and have a marathon viewing of my VHS-taped All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.


I got seriously addicted to Oprah and then later Days of our Lives. Such fond memories. I turned out okay.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 19:11     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should be doing homework in MS.


Public middle schools do not give homework. Maybe some kids have unfinished classwork because they goofed off or didn’t understand, but otherwise there is no HW beyond reviewing for tests.


Public schools advertises that they don’t give homework, but some of they do. DC started to have 60 math questions daily starting 5th grade, plus other projects/reports from social studies, Language arts, history, science etc. besides, there’re online videos posted at schoology by teachers, for students to watch at home before doing homework’s; when there’s a school to prepare, often time students have to watch some articles/videos before they do the test prep worksheet ( homework), then they can study the worksheet for the test. My current middle schooler had to finish 3 homework last night, just math there’re 3 packets, 1 packet has 40 questions both on worksheet and online. Sometimes, when the math homework is online, you don’t get to know how many, it just keeps giving you endless questions. DC finally finished after 11pm, then had to wake up before 6am. It’s like this anlmost everyday. I don’t understand the public school system, adults works 8 hours a day, but for those kids/young adults, they spends 7 hours at school, then go home spend another several hours on school homework. Those are human beings, and education isn’t microchip everyone to make it work.


That's what I was thinking. It's fine to give homework, but after a full school day, making kids come home and do hours more is just cruel.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 13:23     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They should be doing homework in MS.


Public middle schools do not give homework. Maybe some kids have unfinished classwork because they goofed off or didn’t understand, but otherwise there is no HW beyond reviewing for tests.


Public schools advertises that they don’t give homework, but some of they do. DC started to have 60 math questions daily starting 5th grade, plus other projects/reports from social studies, Language arts, history, science etc. besides, there’re online videos posted at schoology by teachers, for students to watch at home before doing homework’s; when there’s a school to prepare, often time students have to watch some articles/videos before they do the test prep worksheet ( homework), then they can study the worksheet for the test. My current middle schooler had to finish 3 homework last night, just math there’re 3 packets, 1 packet has 40 questions both on worksheet and online. Sometimes, when the math homework is online, you don’t get to know how many, it just keeps giving you endless questions. DC finally finished after 11pm, then had to wake up before 6am. It’s like this anlmost everyday. I don’t understand the public school system, adults works 8 hours a day, but for those kids/young adults, they spends 7 hours at school, then go home spend another several hours on school homework. Those are human beings, and education isn’t microchip everyone to make it work.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 13:07     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aside from sports and HW she mostly watches Netflix. She gets good grades so I’m okay with it. I used to watch Saved By the Bell marathons on TBS.

Ha! Me too!


In MS I had discovered soap operas so I would come home after school and have a marathon viewing of my VHS-taped All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.


Same!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 12:54     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Aside from sports and HW she mostly watches Netflix. She gets good grades so I’m okay with it. I used to watch Saved By the Bell marathons on TBS.

Ha! Me too!


In MS I had discovered soap operas so I would come home after school and have a marathon viewing of my VHS-taped All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 11:46     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
snack, HW, reads, makes dinner 1x/week (but can be on weekend, depending on schedule), watches tv shows, and perhaps does Legos or other project and on group chats after HW etc done, usually around 5ish or so on nights when no practices etc.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 11:43     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
If they have done their work and their grades are good and they are doing well with their ECs, let them play their video games!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 11:43     Subject: Middle schoolers after school
I have a 12yo DD not a DS. Now it’s so freezing out there is more screen time than normal.
She does have to make dinner once a week. We started that at the beginning of the school year. If I know she has a totally free block from after school until bed I’ll try and invite a friend over sometimes.
We are in moco and the rec center near us had open gym times for MS kids a couple of times a week. Basketball open gym is Fridays from 3-6 and it’s free so she’s been doing that sometimes.
She doesn’t read for choice so she had to read at bedtime. Screens are off by 730/8.