When does homework start?
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Anonymous
| How much homework is your child getting in 4th or 5th grade? How big was the jump in MS? |
Anonymous
Honestly, 4th grade CES was harder than anything else even TPMS magnet. |
Anonymous
| From our experience, it doesn't really start until 9th grade. Our oldest had a rude awakening this year! |
Anonymous
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in 5th grade - advanced ELA and Compacted 5/6
barely 30 minutes a night on average, none on Fridays |
Anonymous
| Massive increase at 6th at Pyle. Our elementary got rid of it 4 years ago, horrible awful idea in the name of equity. Don’t need hours in elementary, but some would have been good for so many reasons. Thank you MCPS… |
Anonymous
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It depends on the child, OP.
I have both extremes: one slow processor who took hours and hours to complete homework starting from middle school (he also brought back homework in elementary); and a rapid processor who does her 8th grade algebra 2 homework during class, while the teacher is explaining the lesson, and finishes everything else in school with time to speedread books. She was at the Chevy Chase CES, and hardly ever brought back homework. There isn't that much of a workload difference from school to school, it's really more of an individual response in time management and cognitive processing. |
Anonymous
| HW is non existent because that would require accountability. And when a kid doesn’t complete their work it falls solely on the teacher to prove 2 way communication with the caregiver and academic pull out to Reteach and reassess. This is why we have a teacher shortage! |
Anonymous
| Depends on the teachers and your kid. One of mine had tons of homework, the other had very little. The second did it on the bus and in down time in class. Drove first kid nuts. |
Anonymous
| I have a second grader and she gets a few math problems a night and is supposed to read for 15 minutes. It's been like this since Kindergarten. I find it varies though. Several friends with kids in different schools have homework packets/pages they need to do every night. |
Anonymous
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DC grade 4 compacted math has optional ungraded homework (in the sense that there is a Succeed book that has things that can be done at home - they are not collected or graded). Notionally there is ELC homework but I have only seen DC actually read at home once. We lean into the math because DC needs it big time.
DC grade 6 does not have homework unless something is left undone from the school day by accident, in which case DC just logs in and hits "submit." I personally wish they were assigned more books to read and more math to do. I am silently and regretfully grateful that there are not more large projects, because for these age groups we would have to mentor those at home and at this exact moment definitely lack the bandwidth to do so. |
Anonymous
| I have 10th graders and we’ve been in MCPS the whole time. They’ve had at least a little nightly homework every year, including kindergarten. We’ve been through magnet programs at every level. There’s been more homework in high school than ever before, and AP classes increase the workload noticeably. |
Anonymous
Many of us monitor grades online but teachers don't grade or post. Yes, the teacher needs to reach out ad work with the parents. Its part of their job. |
Anonymous
Be prepared to be disappointed, my kid didn’t get any significant amount of homework until 11th grade. Seems like they do a lot of the homework in class. |
Anonymous
| My kids were given homework in K-2, but it was optional. Once in CES, they got a lot of homework, but it varied with teachers. In the MS magnet, it ramped up each year, but ironically, the hardest class was world language. They typically have 1-2 hours per night on the 8th, but their 4th grade CES teacher may have been the most demanding. |