Can anyone give an idea of how much homework per night or week this class requires ? I required.have had some parents tell me this course is so tough because of the reading required. Any insight is appreciated.
The best people to ask are students who have taken the class at your school. The workload depends on the teacher in large part. I would say, though, that an hour/night on average is common.
I agree with @skieurope that you should ask students at your school.
Our school might vary wrt yours. From my perspective, this was the hardest earned A- that I have ever witnessed in my life. My daughter assures me that premed organic chemistry in university was more difficult, but that is a tough comparison.
Yes. There is an enormous amount of reading required.
In retrospect I think that my daughter could have done without it, and nothing else would have changed in the rest of her life (at least through graduation from university, which was not very long ago).