I suspect the not learning much is more related to the lack of a challenging curriculum than to lack of parents working with them outside of school. My children typically didn't have huge amounts of homework in early elementary, so fitting unplayable time and after-school activities wasn't a huge challenge. As they moved up in school, one of my kids purposely chose not to do more than one after-school activity per week to leave plenty of time for homework. Another just stays up until its done (no matter how late and no matter how hard her parents try to get her to leave it for another day and no matter that her teacher would happily give her an extension!). My yngest child participates in sports every single day after school and on Saturdays - she literally has no time left over for homework except on Sundays, so that's when she does her homework for the week. She I subject accelerated in math and working a grade level ahead across the curriculum and could probably easily accelerate further if we worked with her for a few months outside of school, but sports is her thing and she's happy with her active after school life for now so we are ok with it for now too
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