01-09-2012, 04:15 PM
It's true, children are learning things earlier and earlier. My oldest is in 8th grade this year and started with Algebra I, and was just moved to Algebra II. I never even had to take Algebra. Both of my children had to take a year of Spanish last year, I took that in high school, as an elective. My youngest is in fourth grade and comes home with geometry and easily 2-3 hours of homework every night. He learned multiplication tables in the third grade. My oldest has 90 minute classes.