School is back in session and I’m listening to one of my colleagues say that his son started junior high school this year and had 6 hours of homework last night.
It’s a way of bragging: My kid’s school is more academically oriented than your kid’s school.
Maybe your kid is just slow. Maybe other people’s kids are finishing the homework in an hour.
Or maybe your kid finished his homework 6 hours after he said he was starting his homework because he worked for an hour and spent 5 hours surfing the net for pornography.
It doesn’t make sense to say the school assigned X hours of homework . . .