Amanda Wrote:
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> My 7th grader comes home with a minimum of 2-3
> hours of homework a night, which at times includes
> 50+ Algebra problems on top of English, History,
> and Science worksheets and projects. I've heard
> that some middle school students have very little
> homework. Are your kids in hell or heaven?
Hmmm...my honors 7th grader comes home usually having done all her math in her "block class", talks to me/us about her day, then sits with me to do the rest of her homework right then, finishing usually before 16:00. So "home" work amounts to about an hour, plus or minus.
Just about what they said she'd have before she started middle school, I believe:
http://www.fcps.edu/about/homework.htm