Too much homework from teacher

[Anonymous]

DC 5th grader at Fcps has average 4-5 hours of homework daily. Those are not classwork, DC is a very fast kid and would use class time to do some homework, I asked if DC needs help for anything not understand in class and the answer was no. The kids, after all entire school day of laptop usage, have to continue another 4-5 hours laptop homework, there’s no down time and even result in a late bedtime. Why? There have been lot of parents from past few years complain about the same thing, but it never changed, and the teacher would tell students not to complain to their parents during class. If I complain to principal, what will the teacher treat my DC the rest of the school year? I don’t know what I can do to help DC escape from this heavy homework load. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Explain how it’s possible to do 4-5 hours of homework when school gets out at 4 pm? Please write out the schedule with time blocks for this and when dinner and bedtime were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Explain how it’s possible to do 4-5 hours of homework when school gets out at 4 pm? Please write out the schedule with time blocks for this and when dinner and bedtime were.

DC gets home at 4pm, go directly to start homework, always eats supper while doing homework, if there’s sport then it’s extra 1.5-2 hours, shower takes 10 minutes, bed time is around 10:30-11pm.

[Anonymous]

can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

[Anonymous]

There's just no way your child legitimately has 4-5 hours of homework every, single night, particularly if you describe him as a fast worker and say he's starting it in class. It may be TAKING him that long b/c he's distracted or doesn't know what he's doing or taking breaks or is a perfectionist but, as assigned, it's probably something more like an hour or less.

I'd suggest figuring out WHY it's taking him so long and then go from there.

[Anonymous]

Maybe talk to other parents to find out if their kids also spend 4-5 hours every day? I find it hard to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's just no way your child legitimately has 4-5 hours of homework every, single night, particularly if you describe him as a fast worker and say he's starting it in class. It may be TAKING him that long b/c he's distracted or doesn't know what he's doing or taking breaks or is a perfectionist but, as assigned, it's probably something more like an hour or less.

I'd suggest figuring out WHY it's taking him so long and then go from there.

I sit in the room while DC does homework, I tell DC if has any difficulty understand certain subjects like math just ask, but usually DC doesn’t need. I would ask DC to rest or work faster to go to bed, I see DC work fast non stop but still couldn’t reduce the time. I can’t imagine for average or slow speed kids, they must go to bed in midnight, or they stop doing sports/activities after school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

Are you by chance at Navy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

I strongly suspect that your child is not finishing work at school. Most ES teachers don't give more than 30 minutes of homework, and 20 minutes of that is reading. In 4th grade, my kid had some extra homework for Virginia history which amounted to 30 minutes once a week. He has had friends whose parents complained about the amount of homework to me, when I said mine had no homework or limited homework, the parents were confused. Turned out their kid was goofing off at school and the work coming home was the full days workload.

If this is happening, then just stop doing the homework. Tell the teacher you will have your son do 30 minutes of homework and then they are done. It is ES, the grade goes nowhere and means nothing, there is no need to stress over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

I would go to the principal. Most kids do not have to write paragraphs for homework in elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

Which school?

[Anonymous]

sounds like a bad school/teacher. it’s not developmentally appropriate at all. figure out the full story from your kid then talk to someone if it’s really true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

I strongly suspect that your child is not finishing work at school. Most ES teachers don't give more than 30 minutes of homework, and 20 minutes of that is reading. In 4th grade, my kid had some extra homework for Virginia history which amounted to 30 minutes once a week. He has had friends whose parents complained about the amount of homework to me, when I said mine had no homework or limited homework, the parents were confused. Turned out their kid was goofing off at school and the work coming home was the full days workload.

If this is happening, then just stop doing the homework. Tell the teacher you will have your son do 30 minutes of homework and then they are done. It is ES, the grade goes nowhere and means nothing, there is no need to stress over it.

DC had minimum homework 1-4th grade. DC does aware the amount of homework is a lot, and try to complete as much as possible at school. Fcps does have guideline to give no more than 1 hour homework daily, but who’s actually enforce it? Even for middle school they have a b day block so the homework doesn’t due the next day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can you list what the homework is? What takes your child 4-5 hours may not take that long for others. Knowing the type and number of assignments is crucial to helping you out here

There’s usually 5-6 sometimes 7 homework daily. Mostly online plus a few page paper homework like math. Those online homework include YouTube videos you have to watch, many pages of articles you have to read then answer questions or write paragraphs, also slides, you either read through or make, plus projects you have to complete, and study for tests. I’m not the only parent complain, I’ve heard and talked with parents from formal years, they complained to teacher but it didn’t help. We’re at a homework heavy ES, but it’s just not right to torture kids like this.

I strongly suspect that your child is not finishing work at school. Most ES teachers don't give more than 30 minutes of homework, and 20 minutes of that is reading. In 4th grade, my kid had some extra homework for Virginia history which amounted to 30 minutes once a week. He has had friends whose parents complained about the amount of homework to me, when I said mine had no homework or limited homework, the parents were confused. Turned out their kid was goofing off at school and the work coming home was the full days workload.

If this is happening, then just stop doing the homework. Tell the teacher you will have your son do 30 minutes of homework and then they are done. It is ES, the grade goes nowhere and means nothing, there is no need to stress over it.

DC had minimum homework 1-4th grade. DC does aware the amount of homework is a lot, and try to complete as much as possible at school. Fcps does have guideline to give no more than 1 hour homework daily, but who’s actually enforce it? Even for middle school they have a b day block so the homework doesn’t due the next day.

The parent can enforce it. 60 minutes to do your homework and 30 minutes of reading or listening to an audio book. You can split it and say 30 minutes for math and 30 for language arts. Let the teacher know and sign off on any homework that did not get done. If your DC is a slow writer, you can have him dictate to you. You can have him copy it if he needs practice at printing or typing.