Anyone else's kid have Spring Break homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the problems I have with year round schooling.

During the shorter breaks, the kids always have homework. In elementary, it was very thick packets to prepare for standardized testing. In middle school and high school, it tended to be projects and studying for finals (which MCPS had done away with - but that’s a separate issue). They get homework over the summer (which is something I oppose - separate issue), but at least with the longer summer vacation they can do it and still get a break.

If they ever decide to go to year round schooling, kids won’t be getting actual breaks, they’ll just be working from home.

Lived in a year round school system. No homework over most breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid would have but they planned ahead and got it done the week before spring break.

Our child's teacher assigned it the day before spring break so no ability to plan ahead. It was a lot too. Three days worth of regular homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the problems I have with year round schooling.

During the shorter breaks, the kids always have homework. In elementary, it was very thick packets to prepare for standardized testing. In middle school and high school, it tended to be projects and studying for finals (which MCPS had done away with - but that’s a separate issue). They get homework over the summer (which is something I oppose - separate issue), but at least with the longer summer vacation they can do it and still get a break.

If they ever decide to go to year round schooling, kids won’t be getting actual breaks, they’ll just be working from home.

Lived in a year round school system. No homework over most breaks.

It’s great that your system didn’t give homework over breaks, but MCPS does. I’m not saying that year round schooling inevitably comes with homework over breaks. I’m saying that a school system that DOES give homework over breaks shouldn’t go to year round schooling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

Ours also only mentioned it a day or two before the break, but it was listed on the canvas calendar for the entire quarter. It was easy enough to see it coming if you're into that kind of thing.

[Anonymous]

My kids teachers don’t use canvas calendar.

The HS kids got a ton of homework. I don’t think the MS kids did. The timing is not great between the end of quarter coming up this week plus the AP and IB tests kn May. If we started school in August like most school districts, the teachers wouldn’t be so jammed up trying to cover curriculum by early May.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

But it’s not a regular weekend, it’s supposed to be a break. Imagine if you took time off for work and your boss gave you two days of work saying there was plenty of time to do it and still get a weeklong break. Some families plan vacations months ahead of time. If their plane leaves the evening they get out of school and gets back the day before classes resume, then there may not be plenty of time to do it in-between without disrupting the entire family’s plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

But it’s not a regular weekend, it’s supposed to be a break. Imagine if you took time off for work and your boss gave you two days of work saying there was plenty of time to do it and still get a weeklong break. Some families plan vacations months ahead of time. If their plane leaves the evening they get out of school and gets back the day before classes resume, then there may not be plenty of time to do it in-between without disrupting the entire family’s plans.

Do it on the plane on the way home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

But it’s not a regular weekend, it’s supposed to be a break. Imagine if you took time off for work and your boss gave you two days of work saying there was plenty of time to do it and still get a weeklong break. Some families plan vacations months ahead of time. If their plane leaves the evening they get out of school and gets back the day before classes resume, then there may not be plenty of time to do it in-between without disrupting the entire family’s plans.

Do it on the plane on the way home.

Sure, they could do it on the way home (assuming it’s not a project that requires them to spread out art supplies), but they shouldn’t have to. It’s supposed to a BREAK. Similarly, you COULD take work along and do it on your vacation, but you shouldn’t have to. Breaks and vacations are not regular weekends. Schools assign plenty of homework during the regular calendar (which is most of the year), they should leave the breaks alone. Doing one additional weekend’s worth of homework isn’t going to significantly improve learning outcomes, but it will significantly impact a break.

[Anonymous]

it was a 10 day break! One of my HS aged kids had a lot of homework, the other had only a little. They have time to complete HW

Both kids requested to go away for a shorter period of time. We still went on vacation for 4 days and had time for family, friends, hanging out, and school/work responsibilities the other 6 days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is one of the problems I have with year round schooling.

During the shorter breaks, the kids always have homework. In elementary, it was very thick packets to prepare for standardized testing. In middle school and high school, it tended to be projects and studying for finals (which MCPS had done away with - but that’s a separate issue). They get homework over the summer (which is something I oppose - separate issue), but at least with the longer summer vacation they can do it and still get a break.

If they ever decide to go to year round schooling, kids won’t be getting actual breaks, they’ll just be working from home.

Lived in a year round school system. No homework over most breaks.

It’s great that your system didn’t give homework over breaks, but MCPS does. I’m not saying that year round schooling inevitably comes with homework over breaks. I’m saying that a school system that DOES give homework over breaks shouldn’t go to year round schooling.

It goes to show that you can't please everyone. Some parents feel there's too much homework whereas others believe there isn't enough and children aren't adequately prepared for college. Both can't be true.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter if kids can easily get it done, a break is a break, there should be no homework. There shouldn't be so much homework in general, aot of ppl are really reaching to find any good reason for homework.

[Anonymous]

I opened my kid's backpack this morning to find that my 2nd grader had a page of writing and two pages of math assigned for break. New to me...we don't typically have any homework so I was very surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter if kids can easily get it done, a break is a break, there should be no homework. There shouldn't be so much homework in general, aot of ppl are really reaching to find any good reason for homework.

+1

It's a vacation!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they have hmwk over spring break?

It's called spring "break" for a reason.

My kid had about the same amount of homework over spring break that they would have had on a regular weekend. Plenty of time to do it and also have a weeklong break.

Ours also only mentioned it a day or two before the break, but it was listed on the canvas calendar for the entire quarter. It was easy enough to see it coming if you're into that kind of thing.

Lots of teachers don't list things in Canvas ahead of time. It's great that yours does, but don't assume that PP's teachers do. -NP.