She's joined the chorus of complaints about kids drowning in homework. "This is an insane way for families to live," says Gisela.
But Gisela and her husband, Dan Kernan, a 48-year-old software engineer, are already worrying about Sydney, who starts at Brown Middle School next fall, and how she'll cope with the nightly grind. We'd rush through the meal knowing that he had hours of work ahead of him, and he'd start begging for help even before he left the table." Luke, now 15 and a sophomore in high school, has grown more accustomed to his heavy load. "He missed out on sleep, and his anxiety stressed everybody else out. If we all ate dinner together - and it's important to me that we do - he wouldn't even start cracking the books until 7," says Gisela, 42, a toy designer who's also mom to daughter Sydney, 10, and son Rio, 2. "He was at school from 8 to 3, and with soccer practice he wouldn't be done until 5. Suddenly Luke was grappling with 30 minutes of assignments for each of his six classes, lugging home a backpack bursting at the seams - and sagging under the strain. But once he enrolled at Brown Middle School in 2004, Gisela had a rude awakening. Her son Luke never got more than a half hour's worth at Mason-Rice Elementary in Newton, Massachusetts. Gisela Voss always thought that all the griping about homework overload was way overblown.
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