New curriculum = no homework?
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Anonymous
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Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I'm curious what other parents in FCPS are experiencing.
My 5th grader has not received homework all year. I have not seen a single written assignment come home. When we requested textbooks/worksheets to help her study, we were told that was not possible due to the new curriculum being implemented this year. Is this the new normal? And is it county-wide? I feel like I have no idea what is going on in the classroom and no ability to support my kid where she is struggling. |
Anonymous
| We were told that with the new LA curriculum, that there is no homework. DC has received math handouts to finish at home, but no LA. |
Anonymous
| Mine didn't have homework before the new curriculum. |
Anonymous
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The new LA curriculum is horrible. All my kids so at school is the Lexia app. Disgusting.
Beyond that my kids have only had math homework sporadically in upper elementary. In an AAP center. |
Anonymous
| It seems like everything is online now. And yet, at least in our school, the kids have bulky, outdated laptops and don't know how to access half of the 800 (possible exaggeration) apps they use to "learn." |
Anonymous
| My DD is a junior in high school and is only given homework like once every week. She never gotten any homework for US History Honors, or English 11 or Geosystems. She passing all her classes with B & As. If they do get homework is not graded so no one does it. |
Anonymous
Do you feel like her work load is rigorous? Is she prepared for university? Does she know how to study? |
Anonymous
| The last time I saw language arts homework for my kids was a single night of reading comprehension as part of the weekly homework packet that came home in 1st grade. After that there was math in the weekly packet for 2 years, then homework stopped entirely (my kids were in AAP, but I don't think the general ed classes had homework either). |
Anonymous
The new curriculum has its pluses and minuses - but at our school, the teachers don't use Lexia. Blame your teachers for that, not the new curriculum. |
Anonymous
| My 2nd and 3rd grader both get homework. Paper, language arts and math. Also coming home with them are lots of paper worksheets done in school. We go to an ES that feeds one of the less desired HS's in the boundary discussion. |
Anonymous
| 6th grader gets LA homework but no math. We aren’t intense but I had to buy some math resources for extra practice. Some of it really is practice not just conceptually do you get it. Higher level math gets really hard when it takes kids too long to do the basic part of a more complicated algebra or geometry etc problem. |
Anonymous
You are a liar, you don't know anything about the new curriculum. If you did, you would know that the kids don't have any time to even do Lexia. |
Anonymous
DP and not defending anyone here, but my kid is definitely doing new curriculum and Lexia. |
Anonymous
| My 3rd grader occasionally gets a Lexia worksheet, but it is not required. Both 3rd and 6th graders get math homework maybe once a week. |
Anonymous
Kudos to your teachers for going the extra mile. Seems to be an outlier. |