New curriculum = no homework?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do you feel like her work load is rigorous? Is she prepared for university? Does she know how to study?

DP with high school kid and one in college. No, no and no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do you feel like her work load is rigorous? Is she prepared for university? Does she know how to study?

DP with high school kid and one in college. No, no and no.

Ugh. Does anyone else feel that the solution to the slide in grades during and post-COVID was too dumb everything down? This new curriculum and lack of transparency with parents (nothing sent home so nothing to complain about/get involved in!) seems designed to hide the fact that the kids aren't actually doing that great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do you feel like her work load is rigorous? Is she prepared for university? Does she know how to study?

DP with high school kid and one in college. No, no and no.

Ugh. Does anyone else feel that the solution to the slide in grades during and post-COVID was too dumb everything down? This new curriculum and lack of transparency with parents (nothing sent home so nothing to complain about/get involved in!) seems designed to hide the fact that the kids aren't actually doing that great.

I think it was starting before Covid, actually. Look at the way the old BOE kept making the cut score on the reading SOL lower and lower.

Virginia specifically has gone through these cycles multiple times. School standards at the state level slip. Some new governor gets elected or change at VDOE happens. Standards get raised. Schools scream bloody murder. Accreditation go down. Schools clean up their act and start teaching again. Accreditation go up. Things start slipping, but the old guard can't admit it's happening under their watch so they make things easier again and the cycle repeats.

We are at "Schools scream bloody murder" right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Wtf is wrong with you. Teacher specifically told us the new curriculum requires Lexia. So either the teacher doesn’t know the curriculum or they are lying or you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do you feel like her work load is rigorous? Is she prepared for university? Does she know how to study?

DP with high school kid and one in college. No, no and no.

Ugh. Does anyone else feel that the solution to the slide in grades during and post-COVID was too dumb everything down? This new curriculum and lack of transparency with parents (nothing sent home so nothing to complain about/get involved in!) seems designed to hide the fact that the kids aren't actually doing that great.

I think it was starting before Covid, actually. Look at the way the old BOE kept making the cut score on the reading SOL lower and lower.

Virginia specifically has gone through these cycles multiple times. School standards at the state level slip. Some new governor gets elected or change at VDOE happens. Standards get raised. Schools scream bloody murder. Accreditation go down. Schools clean up their act and start teaching again. Accreditation go up. Things start slipping, but the old guard can't admit it's happening under their watch so they make things easier again and the cycle repeats.

We are at "Schools scream bloody murder" right now.

I suppose that's a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Wtf is wrong with you. Teacher specifically told us the new curriculum requires Lexia. So either the teacher doesn’t know the curriculum or they are lying or you are.

DP and just a guess - this is principal dependent. At one school the principal said "You must do Lexia." At another they said "This curriculum leaves no time for Lexia in class."

It's so fun how it's so school dependent in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Yeah our kids still do Lexia. And no homework, which is ridiculous in the upper elementary grades.

[Anonymous]

3rd grader gets math, language arts, and science/health/social studies (depending on the rotation) homework every week. We also get tons of completed/graded work back every week. So. Much. Paper.

This is a center school and the experience is wildly different than our base school (which we also liked, but its a no homework school and minimal work came home).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

What they did not tell you is why they are ending homework:

- racial equity

[Anonymous]

5th grader at an AAP center, and we've been told there is a no-homework policy this year. Kids can't even bring their laptops home. They're supposed to read every night, that's all.

[Anonymous]

My 3rd grader has 20-25 minutes of reading at home and a nightly reading log to fill out, and a short (2-4 questions) math worksheet every night. When they’re preparing for a test, they also have a long study guide to do at home as test prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

DP and not defending anyone here, but my kid is definitely doing new curriculum and Lexia.

Our school is doing both

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Regular English 11 and Geosystems are for kids who don’t want homework and are designed to be easy. I wouldn’t expect any homework there.

[Anonymous]

This push for homework is pretty crazy. Kids don't need it, and if ppl say ot prepared them for tons in MS and HS, my question is why should they get tons at all?

[Anonymous]

My fifth grader gets a combo of Math worksheets and mock tests to complete with a study guide before unit tests in science and social studies. Also does a daily amount of reading. Not AAP.