<p>some high school students who take multiple APs per year and commit to time-consuming extracirriculars and sports have less time to relax than adults anyone agree/disagree? high school students wake up around the same time as their parents go to school at 7:30 till 2:30 with 30minutes of break (lunch). Then they have sports from 3-5, they get home take a shower, eat dinner it gets to be around 6:00 or 6:30ish. then students who take alot of AP courses have to stay up and do hw/study often till midnight or past midnight. Personally, me and my friends slept at 1 or 2 usually. Isnt that like a 16 hour work day pretty much? with VERY VERY little break and relaxation in between? adults have workdays from like wat 7-5ish ? 6ish? Anyone here feel like high school students are being pushed and pushed and how the education system here is so messed up ?</p>
<p>Part of the problem is that the education system has not figured out how to give more relevant work without just giving more work.</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t work very hard.</p>
<p>And you didn’t add in music practice and part-time job. I agree that certain students are pushing themselves or are being pushed and pushed. My experience was that my D was much busier than her parents while in high school. And, it has continued into college, though she is lucky to have found a perfect fit school in a major she loves.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>You should be studying or doing homework.</p>
<p>When my kids were in high school, they were busy from before sunrise until very late into the night with barely any free time. Some of this was by choice as they were very involved in EC areas of interest with huge time commitments and also took the hardest classes and had lots of work and set high standards for themselves. This was 7 days per week.</p>
<p>I have to say, this continued throughout their college years…insane schedules 24/7. </p>
<p>Now, out of school, it still continues! Round the clock, extremely busy with very little free time. They ain’t complainin’. Some of it is again out of choice and being very driven types. When my younger one came home for six days recently, a rarity, she worked much of the time and said she just could not afford to take that much time off and had projects she wanted to accomplish. She’s not even a student anymore!</p>
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<p>Not including, of course, the weeknight time you are online with Facebook and posting on CC and a dozen other sites.<br>
Your generation’s big time problem isn’t that you have too much homework, it’s that you have too many time-sucking fun things available. When your parents and/or their age peers took APs in high school, they didn’t have cells buzzing every 2 minutes with texts, didn’t have internet, didn’t have the huge distractions you guys have to deal with.</p>
<p>Think of it as good practice for real life. HS students do work a ton, but don’t think that young professionals are done working at 5-6 pm either, esp. in the of fields always discussed on CC – IB, law, etc. 9 am to midnight are very common hours in IB and law esp in the large firms and one is expected to sustain those hours for years at a time. All the more reason to “take it easy” in HS and college – without hurting your grades/resume of course.</p>
<p>dragonmom, it’s funny since my kids are not that old (22 and 24) but when they were in HS, Facebook did not yet exist for HS aged students (just as a point of reference, my youngest went to college early and so if you are going by her age, that may not add up). So, they didn’t have that. Also, where we live, our cell phones do not get reception. My kids were not on the phone and internet much in high school!</p>
<p>Back to the original question/statement
Uhhh, no.</p>
<p>many do and I think it is wrong…16 year olds shouldn’t be under so much pressure. College level courses should be taken in college for most everyone except the very top students, IMO.</p>
<p>dragonmom, that may be true for some kids, but honestly my D spent no time at all on the internet except for homework. Music lessons, practice, rehearsal, studying, homework, etc, pretty much filled up all day and night, all things she wanted to do. And, like suzievt says, it continues the same way at her conservatory. Funny, though, this winter break she sure did love sitting around in her PJ’s watching movies. She really needed the rest!</p>
<p>I agree with OP and geeps.</p>
<p>When I was in high school, i was able to play in the band, play a sport, be on student government, take typing (!!) and home ec classes, all the while I was on track to attend a top-50 university, and still make it home after school in time to watch F-troop and the Flintstones. Something has drastically changed.</p>
<p>^^yep, my kids had no time for TV…my younger one asked us to tape Friends for her in HS and once in a great while, she got to watch it at another time…and they don’t watch TV now either and both didn’t want to have a TV in their apartment!</p>
<p>Some kids do homework until 1-2 with zero Facebook, though. My school gives 3-6 hours of homework a night, and some kids don’t get home until 6 or 7 due to sports practice. So 1-2 is an accurate estimate, if not even later, for some students.</p>
<p>@dragonmom gone are the days where if u had a 3.5 u could get accepted just about anywhere if u were from the babybooming generation</p>
<p>“Then they have sports from 3-5,” - Students who do sports (or music or other EC), are supposed to be partcipating because they enjoy it. Not just to rack up resume bullets. </p>
<p>Yes, students are busy. And a lot of adults are busy, with work and other things. In some cases the students are very driven and very busy… but in many cases they are loving it.</p>
<p>hey carmondd, I know…my kids were NMS - you guys spend more time at the desk than your parents did, by far.
You also have the problem of being able to spend HUGE amounts of time feeling like you are studying because you are sitting in front of the computer and the calculus book but aren’t really getting stuff done. So many more distractions.
PS, there was never a time when a 3.5 got you in “just about anywhere” unless your “just about anywhere” means the local state U.</p>
<p>@MD Mom: An accurate observation.</p>
<p>@firelight: 3-6 hrs. of homework a night… are you learning a lot?</p>
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<p>As if an adult’s work stops just because an employer isn’t paying you!</p>