Stressed High Schoolers Fraction Of Students

<400,000 college freshmen how much homework they did in high school.
About two-thirds say only an hour a night or less. Remember, these are

John Gilmer...

Begs the question of what is the "proper" amount of time kids should be
expended to spend on homework.

The schools have complete control of 7 hours of each kid's time already.
We expect kids to sleep 8 hours and it takes at least an hour to bath,
dress, and other necessary morning and evening activities including a quick
breakfast.

That leaves 8 hours for supper and travel to school and back and HOMEWORK..
Of course there is still some weekend time available.

College students are often expected to do two hours of homework for each
hour of class. That works out to a little less than 12 hour each weekday
for school work. With 8 hours sleep, meals, bathing, etc. a college
"grind" would have about 2 hours for travel and "free" time each day.

If we want to hold HS students to that standard (two hours of combined
travel and "free" time per day), the little darlings should have about SIX
hours of homework each day.

Does anyone here actually KNOW a kid who devotes 6 hours of day to homework
or home study?

the homework habits of students who went on to college. The one-third

sf...

Ahhhh.... "bonehead" courses for high schoolers. Good idea!

of high school graduates who weren't preparing for higher education
were likely to have had an even lighter academic load.>>

In his zeal to promote the AP racket, Jay Mathews completely ignored
the question that is so obvious to me: How is it possible that U.S.
high school education has degenerated to such an extent that meaningful
homework is being assigned only in the AP racket courses?

hrubin...

This is one of the worst ideas I have seen. A test
should test knowledge; generally, graduating high
school means serving the 12 years with good behavior.

The old New York test was supposed to be at the sixth
grade level, which meant something then, before the

Bob LeChevalier...

So?

Bob LeChevalier...

Per your own statement, there was no "taxpayers' K-12 education
subsidy" in most of the country. But in those places where there was
such a subsidy, there was in fact no "school choice" and in fact only
one such school subsidized per locale.

Bob LeChevalier...

"We the people" created the multiple systems.

Bob LeChevalier...

Doesn't matter. In the early days, women didn't vote, nor men without
property. And children still do not vote. "We the people" still
intend and accept that those who vote speak for all the people who do
not or cannot.

Bob LeChevalier...

Nothing. Never have. I also rarely drink, and was drunk precisely
once, on my 21st birthday (which was not at all recent)

Bob LeChevalier...

The concepts of the founders have a way of doing that. Heady stuff.

Bob LeChevalier...

Actually, in every state that has it as part of the state constitution
(which I believe is all of them), it was probably a vote of the people
that enacted the constitutional change.

Bob LeChevalier...

Nope.

Bob LeChevalier...

I know of two cities where they are "policy" and in both cases, they
are limited.

Bob LeChevalier...

They have not been especially successful in any locale. In Milwaukee,
where the largest program exists, the public schools grow faster than
the number of voucher students does, the last I looked. And the
growth seems to be at the expense of the number of non-publically
funded students. It just means that poor students with government
funding are replacing richer students with private funding.

Bob LeChevalier...

(Yawn) Your incessant droning of this noise is more likely to put me
to sleep.

educationists decided to insist on age grouping.