[LIT] later start?

[Bill IVEY]

"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."
<lit at literacyworkshop.org> on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM -0500
wrote:
>Also,
>the ones who ride the bus get home super late, which I do NOT think is ok.
>Some will get home at 6 or 6:30. That's unacceptable to me.

Hi!

Now that's interesting to me, because my school requires afternoon sports
which run from 3:45-5:45 (our academic day runs from 7:55-3:30) and
therefore the earliest a day student can expect to get home is 6;00. Some
don't get home until more like 7:00.

We try to adjust our homework accordingly so that they don't have to stay
up too late, and can hopefully have some "be a kid" and/or family time as
well. The boarding kids in the middle school have 75 minutes' worth of
evening study hall (with a break in the middle), so we aim for about 75
minutes of take-home-work a night. We do annual homework surveys each fall
to double-check that we are meeting the needs of that year's groups of
kids both in terms of total quantity and in terms of distribution over the
course of the week. Most families are pleased with the results.

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School