I was thinking about this this morning. Obviously, I am not MJF :D, but in her 12 hour schedule she has 1 hour for breakfast/chores, 1 hour for lunch and 1 hour for tea time . If you take those out of the picture, you are left with a 9 hour day. This is still less than PS where kids have school from 8 to 3, then 3-4 hours of home work every day. Never mind a 30 min bus ride both ways.