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Is it uncommon to have six hours of studying and homework per night for a junior? Thanks.

By THE GREFFLE on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 12:26 pm: Edit

Nope

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 01:04 pm: Edit

no. I have that much.

By um....no on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 01:31 pm: Edit

I had 1/4 as much as you did.

By your local mayor on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 01:33 pm: Edit

nope

By yup on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 03:03 pm: Edit

common if ur taking ap's

-- i HAAAATE BUSY WORK!!!!!!

By um...no on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 04:07 pm: Edit

I am taking AP's.

By yeah on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 04:42 pm: Edit

It's normal for IB or AP kids to have over 5 hours of HW a day.

By Studiousvegetar (Studiousvegetar) on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 06:10 pm: Edit

I'm in honors and APs.

By kyle on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 06:33 pm: Edit

yeah, that's about what i've gotten too. sucks bigtime. i hope college isn't this insane!

By Josh White on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 07:25 pm: Edit

This is a whole new world to me. I come from a land where football, basketball, and baseball coaches teach math and history. The land where no APs are offered. Seventy five percent of the students in my school do zero hours of homework per evening. In a graduating class of 60 students there might be 8 valedictorian 4.0's because our Art and our hollowed mandatory P.E. classes are weighted just just as much as Physics and Calculus.

Am I the only one on this board attending a practical joke of a school?

By Thedad (Thedad) on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:19 pm: Edit

Josh, you're not the only one. But your school sounds very depressing for anyone with academic ambitions.

I think there's a medium. Often very small [public] schools can't afford to offer the breadth of curriculum. Large schools, like my daughter's [approx. 3,300 students] have the course offerings but also let students get lost and fall through the cracks.