This is a summary of an article titled "School or real life? Doing sixth grade homework." This article is about an issue of schoolkids' homework being way too hard, leaving them no time for extracurricular activities.

The author decided to conduct an experiment and do one day's worth of her daughter's homework assignments for five subjects: English, math, Russian, literature, and history. 

She notes that there are norms for how long homework is supposed to take. For 6th graders, that's two and a half hours of self-study per day. She points out that it should be easier for her since she's a college graduate.

It takes her 30 minutes to finish the Russian assignment. She notes that it was fairly easy. 

The math teacher gave a Math Olympiad as homework. Her daughter says that it's a qualifying stage and the winners will be competing at university. The Olympiad started with easy problems, but the third one was so hard that she had to ask for help. She asked classmates' parents first, but they had no clue how to solve them. She looked online but couldn't find an answer. Finally, she got help from her friends who had math degrees. It took one and a half hours to do the Olympiad.

Next was history. The kids are supposed to study two paragraphs and answer some questions. The author answers the questions in the textbook, but her daughter told her that the history teacher gives them another 60-70 questions per paragraph. For some of the questions, there are no answers in the book. The author notes that she doubts whether kids even need to know all this stuff at the tender age of 12. She had to look for answers online again. It took another half hour.

At this point, the allocated time was already up. But there was English and literature left to do. For literature, they're supposed to memorize a poem.

The author asks other parents what they usually do with all the homework their kids are supposed to do. A lot of them use websites with answers to the homework.

The author then moves on to the English homework. But she can't remember the grammar required for those questions and looks it up online on one of those same websites.

She wraps the article up by saying that she's glad that she's not a schoolkid anymore.

https://aif.ru/society/education/shkola_ili_zhizn_uchim_uroki_za_shestoy_klass