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ChilisWife
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Re: Homework with 2 kids
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Posted by KarenK122
There are many parents in my district that "opt out" of homework (at elementary level). There are a ton of studies out that that shows that homework is not beneficial to academic learning and just adds stressors. We had no homework last year (4th Grade) except for projects and nightly reading and it was our best year yet.
Oh I wish we could do this! The homework is redundant and annoying. Reading, yes. Dittos upon dittos, no. I was surprised that the majority of the parents that responded to a question about having no homework in our district, are actually FOR homework.
I think it also depends on the family schedule. For example, if your kids take the regular bus home and have no sports or other activities, then yeah I guess having from 2 or 3pm until the evening to do some homework isn't terrible. However my DH and I both work so by the time we get them home from after care it's 6pm, everyone is starving so we have to cook and eat and by then everyone is tired and it's late and we have to start dittos? UGH, and those are just the days that there is no baseball or gymnastics practice/games which I admit on some of those days they can't even finish the homework. I am all for well-rounded children and also for family time and I'm not going to eliminate everything else in our lives just so that they can put spelling words in alphabetical order.
Why don't your kids do their homework in aftercare ? I know with our aftercare program at school, and the local offsite one, they offer help for the kids to do their homework there.
They do their homework in after care and 9 times out of 10, when we check it, it is either incomplete or outright WRONG. I told the lady in charge and she was surprised but what can they really do, there are a few high school kids helping a ton of kids. This always made it worse because we would then make them redo it later and they felt like they were doing homework twice.
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BargainMama
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Re: Homework with 2 kids
Posted by ChilisWife
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by ChilisWife
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by KarenK122
There are many parents in my district that "opt out" of homework (at elementary level). There are a ton of studies out that that shows that homework is not beneficial to academic learning and just adds stressors. We had no homework last year (4th Grade) except for projects and nightly reading and it was our best year yet.
Oh I wish we could do this! The homework is redundant and annoying. Reading, yes. Dittos upon dittos, no. I was surprised that the majority of the parents that responded to a question about having no homework in our district, are actually FOR homework.
I think it also depends on the family schedule. For example, if your kids take the regular bus home and have no sports or other activities, then yeah I guess having from 2 or 3pm until the evening to do some homework isn't terrible. However my DH and I both work so by the time we get them home from after care it's 6pm, everyone is starving so we have to cook and eat and by then everyone is tired and it's late and we have to start dittos? UGH, and those are just the days that there is no baseball or gymnastics practice/games which I admit on some of those days they can't even finish the homework. I am all for well-rounded children and also for family time and I'm not going to eliminate everything else in our lives just so that they can put spelling words in alphabetical order.
Why don't your kids do their homework in aftercare ? I know with our aftercare program at school, and the local offsite one, they offer help for the kids to do their homework there.
They do their homework in after care and 9 times out of 10, when we check it, it is either incomplete or outright WRONG. I told the lady in charge and she was surprised but what can they really do, there are a few high school kids helping a ton of kids. This always made it worse because we would then make them redo it later and they felt like they were doing homework twice.
Ugh, that is annoying!
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