Students go home with two hours of homework each day, and they can call their teachers' cell phones with any questions.

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The bottom line: Alternative-asset IRAs can work well, but investors who want to go this route have plenty of homework in store.

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Teachers and children will go back to class, prepare lessons, do homework, take tests and grade them.

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It's been my experience that many teachers don't really care whether parents go to the PTA or help their kids with homework.

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So that means when you go home, right, after you finish your homework, before you turn on the TV, turn on the radio and move.

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No matter what is going on in your lives, you have to go to school and you have to do your homework every day -- every day.

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Parents -- (applause) -- you can't complain about the schools and complain about the teachers, but when your child comes home, they're playing video games and not doing homework, and you don't have time to go to your teacher and parent -- teacher-parent meeting.

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My oldest especially, has changed from a child who hated school and would try to pretend to be poorly to stay home, to one who loves school, can't wait to tell me what he's learned that day, enjoys his homework, and gets upset if he is poorly and he can't go.

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