how old were you?

I am glad you touched upon the young kids having so much homework. I graduated mid-term when I was 17, and am now he parent of 3 kids. The oldest will be in 4th grade. Starting in 2nd grade, the homework load became almost too much to handle. I work, and by the time I came home, made dinner, and dealt with the homework issue, there was no time left for “family” or for just being a kid. My son was often up later than he should have been to finish homework for the next day, which left him tired and stressed. I think education is important, but I think schools need to be a little more sympathetic to parents that work late shifts and kids that do not get home until 8pm after daycare, music lessons, and sports practices. My kids are more “overscheduled” than I am, and it causes major stress to the entire family. I want them to have time to be kids, but the school seems to think we are still living in the 50’s (June Cleaver is home to meet the boys after school every night with a big glass of milk and her grammar expertise). The homework load needs to coincide with the time constraints of a modern, two-income family. As it stands, only those parents that have the financial means to support a stay-at-home parent can keep up with the homework load without losing the far more important lesson of family and community involvement.

I was 18 when I graduated. I also think elementary school kids have too much homework. I know a lot of families with young kids in school and the parents are complaining all the time about how much work their kids are getting. They have so much, they have to work during spring and winter break. I think its crazy

I was 17. That’s so true about elementary school. I came back to my old elementary school awhile back and was talking to one of my former teachers and she told me that they had basically cut off all the things I used to do when I was a student there. There was no more library time, computer lab, art classes, or physical education. It was completely standard-based and these students were made to learn things I didn’t learn until junior high and doing assignments that I’m sure I wouldn’t have understood back then.

I was 18 when I graduated. I was supposed to graduate when I was 17, but I had to make some credits up that I slacked off on in my junior year—so I got ‘left back’, so to say….

I was 19

5 years primary+2 years presecondary(for learning english)+6 years secondary school.

after that I had to go univercity for 6 years more.

i graduated high school when i’m 17.. then further my study for diploma the next year.. graduated diploma three years later.. now i’m a working girl..

graduated when i was 17.

In 9th grade they started to give me a lot of homework(seriously).