<p>My 10th grader with ADD and LD is spending about 4 1/2 hours/night doing homework. Is this a typical amount for 10th grade? She gets 1 period of resource /day, down from 2 last year, so more of the homework is coming home.</p>
<p>Is she taking any AP or Honors classes? They pile on the homework. My daughter spent about that much time on sophomore homework, mostly on AP Euro and Honors Chem.
How does your daughter feel about the homework? Is she confident, or frustrated?</p>
<p>My D is a sophomore. They’ve only been in school for a couple weeks, so I don’t think we have the full measure of what the work is going to be, but so far she’s had about 2 to 3 hours of homework a night on average, plus what she does during a 50 minute study hall and part of a 50 minute lunch. She also does homework over the weekend (something she tried to avoid last year). She has 1 AP, 2 honors classes, 1 accelerated class and 2 standard classes. Her best friend, who has 4 honors classes and 1 standard class, does 5 to 6 hours of homework a night, plus what she does during lunch and study hall.</p>
<p>ask your school what is typical. Do you have a back to school night coming up? At our school ~1hr per class is what they say is the typical homework load. Some classes have been more for my kids (mostly reading, they are not the quickest readers) some teachers give less than the above recommendation. Definitely see what the overall guidelines are and have her or you touch base with a teacher for a class with the most difficulty, to see if she is doing too much or not approaching the assignments correctly.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>My two D’s, with no ADD or LD (and no resource period/study halls) would typically spend 3-4 hr/night on homework in 10th grade. It seems plausible to me that your D is spending 4.5 hrs, given her ADD/LD challenge.</p>
<p>I would bet that the range of 10th grader homework hours at my child’s school runs from <1 hour to 5-6. Harder to say what the average is. I would also bet that the number of hours spent correlates somewhat to course rigor, and somewhat to child’s character (dot-every-i vs. never-rewrite, ambitious vs. laid-back, interested in subj. vs. bored). All that said, my 10th grader, who is taking 1 AP, Pre-Calc, 3 Honors and 1 Regular, and whom I consider a fairly inefficient but ambitious homework do-er, spends 3 - 5 hours most week-nights, and an additional 4 hours on Sunday. No Study Halls. </p>
<p>I think what really matters though is whether your child is doing what’s right for him. Does s/he have time for sports or other EC’s?</p>
<p>A lot depends on the kid. I have one who used to spend all of her free time on HW. This did not depend on the amount of free time, the amount of work, or the difficulty of the assignments.</p>
<p>It depends on rigor / number of classes and a child ability. D almost never did her math and Spanish at home, for example. They were her easiest classes. She also wanted to go to daily swim practice (over 3 hours all together), so it pushed her since my requirements was that all homework had to be done before practice and straight to bed after. Everybody is different taking different classes, having different ability and time management skills.</p>
<p>My ADD LD S2 has always spent more time on HW than Honors S1. Ever since elementary school. Go figure. I find that S2 cannot finish his classwork in school and has to complete it at home, plus any homework assigned. Honors S1 not only finishes schoolwork in school, but he was rarely assigned HW (yes, I checked with his teachers to verify this.) But now that Honors S1 is in 11th grade, he suddenly has a lot of homework every night too. It’s a shock to his system.</p>
<p>My son, who took 4 honors classes plus 3 mostly flaky electives in 10th grade, never spent anywhere near that amount of time on homework. I’m not sure whether he did any homework, actually.</p>
<p>My daughter, who was pre-IB at that point, probably spent about 3 hours on homework a night, but she was willing to defer large amounts of work to the weekends and often spent 8 hours or more on schoolwork during the weekend. So maybe it does add up to the sort of workload you’re suggesting.</p>
<p>10th grade son’s doing 5 +/- 1 hours of homework on Sunday and then Monday through Thursday nights. AP Bio (2-hour-class), honors American History, English, Spanish, AP-track honors math (and band, but no, he is not practicing his instrument every night!). Seems like a little more homework than last year but harder classes than last year, especially the Bio and the math. Also, I know he is fitting facebook and youtube in, so I don’t think we are seeing five hours at 100% concentration every night. He plays a fall sport so he can’t get started til 6:30 p.m., so late nights at our house this fall. </p>
<p>I personally think this is too much homework…</p>
<p>A lot depends on the school. D#1, competitive private, 5 hours a night, plus mandatory extracurriculars. D#2, Catholic HS, two and a half hours per night. YMMV.</p>
<p>When I went to the public high school, I complained when there was more than an hour’s worth. I can’t imagine doing 2-3, let alone 5-6. Something tells me not enough is getting done with class time.</p>
<p>To answer the first question, she has been pretty committed to doing the homework, and not complaining much (yet). I am the one who was questioning this, not her. We have essentially eliminated ECs on M-Th, and she has started doing homework on weekends in the one subject for which it is posted ahead of schedule. I will try to encourage her to study for tests on weekends too. From the responses here, it sounds like 1 hour/subject is not unheard of.</p>
<p>I think it is too much. And cutting EC’s is a shame. I would suggest doing less homework and continuing to pursue other interests.</p>
<p>Does this child have a 504 and/or IEP? I would talk to the team.</p>
<p>calgal, although 1 hr/subj is not unheard of in some places, the main point is that this does vary widely so you need to see if that is the expectation at your school. Can you talk to other parents? How was 9th grade? Our school slowly ratchets up the load from middleschool, there is not a huge jump in 9th or in 10th. Please continue to look into it instead of having her toil in silence when there might be a disconnect somewhere.</p>
<p>In 10th, the boys spend on average 1 to 3 hours on homework. A rare night maybe another hour or two if there is a “big paper” or project due. They were taking a college prep course with one AP in 10th grade. The amount of time felt pretty consistent from 9 through 12. My dyslexic #3 probably spends alittle more time because he reads slower and is in general a more methodical student. He just started high school and I am interested to see how it plays out with him (with regard to amount of time to complete homework.)</p>
<p>D1 is a Junior in college now, and D2 is just starting 10th grade. It is quite normal to have 3-5 hours of homework a day at their high school, plus all day Sun. They have 1 study period and 1 conference period in school. Most kids have sports from 3:30 to 6 everyday. My kids have ballet 3-4 hours/day 3 days a week, and all day Sat, plus other musical lessons. On week nights they do not have time for socializing. </p>
<p>Spring of sophmore year into junior year there is SAT tutoring and practice tests. Yes, these kids are pretty stretched. It is the reason why I do not have them do anything academic in the summer.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine how so many of the kids can possibly get enough sleep, especially given that teens need 9 to 11 hours (more than their middle school years) for the sake of their health, development and wellbeing. Something seems fundamentally wrong with the equation. An occasional all-nighter, or a bad semester here and there is one thing, but the idea of having this kind of schedule for — how many years?-- seems atrocious.</p>
<p>My kids go to bed usually by 10pm. I don’t think they have ever pulled an all nighter.</p>