Excessive? Finally a child who is not being left behind and getting a quality education and you are worried about excessive homework.
Short answer: No, its not too much, skip to the bottom.
Long answer: No, but keep reading
I had a similar homework load as your daughter from 7 - 12 in a private christian academy (we were on the poorer side of that slide rule). It is this kind of education that makes great people.
All my friends that went to public schools or vocational schools had 15min - 1 hour of home work, if they even did it. I'd always be stuck inside while they were outside playing. As we got into our teenage yrs, I'd be inside, and they would be drinking, smoking, driving, necking and generally still having a good time. (Not all public schools are bad but we had a few in our area.)
Weekends, well there was continued homework on the weekends 4-6 hours. Now, i wasn't the most motivated student, so add 20% for me dragging my shebs to complete a project.
How did it all turn out? Those who slacked in HS are working harder now than I am for less. Mind you I can barely afford the upkeep on the 911 but, I do have one.
So your child has 3 hours of homework and you are being a responsible parent and making sure she does it.
I say "Good for you, Cheers!"
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Originally Posted by 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?
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