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6 Stressful Challenges in the After-School Hours

Zack Monroe was 11 years old, in sixth grade, and participating in a selective program for academically talented students when we first interviewed him. The only child of a single mother, Zack has very little contact with his father. Because of the extra homework he is required to do for his academic program, Zack no longer goes after school to the community center he attended when he was younger. Instead, his mother allows him to spend time on his own so that he can go to the library and concentrate on his schoolwork.

Zack's mother, Peggy, describes Zack's after-school arrangement as "more like no arrangement at all." After school Zack is supposed to do his homework in the library, go home, or go to a friend's house. However, Zack rarely gets his homework done. "Most kids go to the library and get their homework done, but I go there and fool around." Zack's inability to complete his homework, despite the intelligence and skills that brought him to his accelerated program, have put him in danger of failing his classes.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The After-School Lives of Children: Alone and with Others While Parents Work. Contributors: Deborah Belle - author. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: 96.
    
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