yes its good to get the brain waves flowing like having gym before math class .

HECK NO.I WILL NEVER LET MY CHILD TO DO IT

As a single parent it's very challenging to avoid my daughters to watch tv or get on their electronics. I don't make it home until 6pm (or sometimes later) so my Kindergarten-er is usually finishing up her homework while I'm making dinner which isn't ideal because although she knows her ABCs and knows how to right them, she is not confident enough to do them without me next to her. Although my oldest daughter picks up her from school, her homework isn't completed until I get home. This is in part because I want to be part of her hw process. My other daughter, who is a Junior, has basketball practice until 5pm each day - we both get home at the same time. So by the time she gets home, she's exhausted adn wants a little break. I let her unwind however she sees fit and she hits the books after dinner (7:30pm >

For my kids, they are in an aftercare program at school. They get out of school at 3:00, go to the aftercare program, where they get a snack and do their homework. There are also volunteers, teachers, and high school students there to help (and get community help credits). I pick them up at 4:30 and we have a 45 minute commute by car to the house. This is when they usually fall asleep.
Once we get home, they change their clothes and immediately to the kitchen table where they finish up what they didn't do and/or talk to my husband and I about their work so we can review and make sure they are doing it correctly all while their dad and I are cooking.
It's a great family time to talk about our day and we are also aware of what's going on at school.
No TV, no electronics until 6:30pm
Dinner, play, relaxation, bath and bed by 8:00 (my kids are 2nd and 3rd graders)
It works for us.

I recently learned just how stressed my 13 yr old is after 7 hours of school all day, of course they need to depress, don't you when you come home? Of course you do. Respect them as well. Their brains need to decompress as well and play, be creative, imagine, reenergize. This is also needed to be able to learn, think etc and has been scientifically proven that its needed as well as being well rounded in the Arts to do well. Just find a routine that works for your child and for gods sake.. Please listen to your children when they try and tell you their stressed or its to much ...just listen to them, they do have feelings and opinions as we do as adults. Your shaping them into the adults they will become so be careful what you say, DO, WATCH, speak, act, words, and how you treat them and act around them .