Does your kindergarten assign homework?

[Anonymous]

We had reading, but it wasn't checked in any way. A small math, handwriting, or ELA worksheet for each night of the week showed up in 1st. We got them all at the beginning of the week giving flexibility to do it on any night before Friday.

I liked the 1st grade homework for all the reasons listed above.

[Anonymous]

The Finnish education system only works in Finland because the population is mostly homogeneous, and because in Finnish spelling follows regular rules without tons of exceptions. The US has a lot of immigrant populations who don't care about academics, and on top of that reading in English is 1000x more difficult than reading in Finnish. So yes, the academics have to start earlier.

Go learn Finnish and move to Finland if you don't like it here!

[Anonymous]

We were in mcps and dud not do homework in K. My kid had just turned 5 and it was a long day already. I told them ( nicely) we wouldn’t be doing it. Wasn’t an issue.

[Anonymous]

I’m a rule follower, so it never occurred to me to opt out. Our kindergarten had a weekly homework packet and occasional “family projects.” I have twins, so I begrudgingly did each project twice so the kids could each do them the way they wanted. I thought it was all bs, but by God, we did it. I don’t think there should be homework in K, except for parents to try to read with their kids each night.

[Anonymous]

My Kinder gets a homework packet on Monday to have completed by Friday.

It takes us less than 5 minutes per day and my DS likes to be "like his big sibs who do homework."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room!

[Anonymous]

Ours does not. I think it’s insane and I would push back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room!

"Larlo, please don't drink the chocolate milk at school."
"OK, Mom."
Proceeds to drink chocolate milk at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room!

"Larlo, please don't drink the chocolate milk at school."
"OK, Mom."
Proceeds to drink chocolate milk at school.

NP so instead you want to the lunch monitors to know the food preferences of 50 kids? Or the teacher, who also needs to eat their lunch, to know the food requests of 20 kids and monitor it at all times? That’s a ridiculous request and just not going to happen.

Also I know lots of kindergartners. Even they know what their parents do or don’t want them to eat, including being careful about allergies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room!

"Larlo, please don't drink the chocolate milk at school."
"OK, Mom."
Proceeds to drink chocolate milk at school.

NP so instead you want to the lunch monitors to know the food preferences of 50 kids? Or the teacher, who also needs to eat their lunch, to know the food requests of 20 kids and monitor it at all times? That’s a ridiculous request and just not going to happen.

Also I know lots of kindergartners. Even they know what their parents do or don’t want them to eat, including being careful about allergies.

No, we want the school to stop offering sugary crap to children who haven’t developed self control yet.

[Zazza]

Nothing in our private k. They do send worksheets home occasionally but teachers made it very clear it was entirely optional and does not need to be brought back.

[Anonymous]

"nuts" and "insanity" -- you sound like a lot, OP

Is it like 5min worksheets that you don't even turn in? Just don't do it if you don't want to, literally no one cares.

[Anonymous]

Ours does not. Homework isn't developmentally appropriate in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room!

"Larlo, please don't drink the chocolate milk at school."
"OK, Mom."
Proceeds to drink chocolate milk at school.

NP so instead you want to the lunch monitors to know the food preferences of 50 kids? Or the teacher, who also needs to eat their lunch, to know the food requests of 20 kids and monitor it at all times? That’s a ridiculous request and just not going to happen.

Also I know lots of kindergartners. Even they know what their parents do or don’t want them to eat, including being careful about allergies.

No, we want the school to stop offering sugary crap to children who haven’t developed self control yet.

I’m the teacher who originally brought up chocolate milk. I don’t want it offered either but I am not in charge of that or millions of other things that parents complain to me about. I wish I had so much power!!