[tssva]

School systems have also been moving to starting high school later which has an effect. My high school daughter starts her school day at 9:18am and gets out at 4:08pm. If you participate in any after school activities such as a sport you aren't getting home until 5:30-6pm. She then has 2-3 hours of homework a night. Doesn't leave at lot of time social get togethers during the week.

When I was in high school we got out at 1:50pm and had maybe 1-2 hours of homework, not that I did any of it, per night. There was a lot more free time during the week for social interaction outside of school.

[shortcake27]

Amazing how the west blasts the east for child slave labour yet we subject our own children to 12 hour days and call it “school”. Very sad.

[tssva]

Although I got out at 1:50, I worked driving a fork lift in a warehouse from 2-6pm after school. A job I couldn't have in most places today as a teen. The 80s were a different time. Even then I still had more free time for friends than my daughter. She is pretty studious and cares about school which makes a difference. I cared more about drinking and getting high with my friends and didn't really do anything for school outside of it.