[jyl]

I'm thinking specifically of grade school and middle school.

My daughter is in 6th grade, and must have 3+ hours of homework every night. She is diligent about it - comes home from school, plays around for an hour or so, and then gets to work, interrupts for dinner, then resumes work. Often she doesn't finish until 9 or 10 PM. Tonight she had some English homework, then science homework, then math homework which was algebra and beginning statistics. She was tired by the time she got to the math, and wasn't "getting it" at all. (We made a new rule, that she always has to do her math homework first.) She usually has a couple hours of homework for Friday night/the weekend, too.

All told, it must come to 15 hours of homework a week. Does that seem excessive to you? I don't remember having anywhere near that much homework as a little kid. Heck, I'm not sure I had 15 hours/wk of homework in college.

What is it like in your kids' schools?