Middle School Homework — Too much in private will APS be more reasonable
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Anonymous
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We went to Langley during the pandemic and find all the homework not working for us as a family; we have lots of after school activities and travel sports and it’s just too much.
What’s the load of daily/weekly homework for 6th grade at DHMS, for the most advanced math and English tracks? |
Anonymous
What an hysterical question! Given that APS is minimizing homework as much as possible, and based on my two children's experiences in middle and high school, I am confident you will not find the Arlington ms or hs homework load unreasonable. Homework doesn't even count toward the student's grades anymore; so no pressure to even do it from that stand point. |
Anonymous
Does Langley really give that much homework? I thought it wasn’t intense as Potomac |
Anonymous
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There isn't an advanced English track in MS. There will be one starting next year.
The most advanced math track is 2 years above grade level. Students in 6th take math 6/7/8 in 6th grade, then Intensified Algebra in 7th and so on. Is your student on track for this? HW in MS in APS seems to vary widely by school. |
Anonymous
| My daughter rarely has any homework in APS, she’s an eighth grader. But she works quickly and get the most of her stuff done in school. |
Anonymous
We do like daily math homework, as it builds the skill taught that day. Any update on math HW for Pre Alg at DHMS? So if there is no English honors tract? Is there a vocab workbook? How many novel have they read this year? |
Anonymous
| Oh. Its a troll. Asking about workbooks for public school and daily homework. |
Anonymous
yep |
Anonymous
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Tract?
Clearly you were not in Honors English and didn’t have a vocab workbook. |
Anonymous
I don't have time to find it, but there is an APS equity-driven policy about homework. Almost never mandatory, and they have until the end of the quarter to turn it in. Even if they don't do it at all the lowest grade is a 50%, not a 0% even if they did zero work. Homework can also only count for something like 15% of the total grade. We talked to both our child's math teacher and foreign language teacher since they are high school level courses. Both unofficially said that we should have DC doing 15-20min of review every day as unassigned or unofficial homework since practice really is necessary in both of those subjects to master the material. The no homework plus test-retakes policies are going to help prop up grades, but not necessarily the type of deep mastery that daily practice brings. Starting in 2023 there will be open-enrollment intensified options in English, Social Studies and Science in addition to the current accelerated math options. Your child does not need to be identified as GT,and does not need teacher approval. The schools will be doing massive outreach among traditionally lower-performing populations (minorities, lower SES, ESL, SWD) to ensure that the classes reflect the same demographics as the school, that way the intensified don't look like clusters of white UMC kids in each school. |
Anonymous
APs has new consumables this year in English, not a troll. |
Anonymous
Sorry I am ESL (immigrant) |