do you review homework?

[Anonymous]

I guess we are the outlier. We review all math homework and larger writing assignments. We will do so through 8th. Teachers don’t have time to provide meaningful feedback. We don’t use any tutors so maybe that is the difference.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see anything wrong with it and if I was a parent with more energy, I would probably do it. But as is, I don’t, unless I happen to walk in when they are doing homework.

[Anonymous]

We did for my older DD but didn’t for our younger.
Depends on the kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I'm surprised by this. I want students' unchecked work so I can see what they are able to accomplish on their own. A lot of the work I do involves putting students into groups based on what they need to learn and giving them corresponding support or materials. I don't need the additional headache of great homework and bad taste grades. It's more helpful to have a consistent performer.

Have you talked to other parents? What do they think?

As a parent, I have two very different kids in terms of their academic abilities, so my approach to their HW differs. With the more competent one, I check in every so often on writing to share advice, but that's it (also, that kid will often show me their HW for feedback.) With my more challenged kid, I sometimes look it over to prompt him to put in a missing word, spell something he knows how to spell, etc. But doing it for the purpose of improving their grades, esp in 6th grade, sends the wrong message on all kinds of fronts and, again, interferes with the teachers' ability to do their jobs, in my opinion.

the problem with this is that so far, DS’s teachers give zero feedback on homework. As far as I can tell they never actually grade it. As a result, DS does not take HW seriously and I have no idea how he’s actually doing. Somehow even with all the modern means of communication and all the zillions of assessments, giving consistent feedback to kids and parents seems to have gone by the wayside. So yeah, as 6th grade is beginning, I’m definitely planning to check homework.

[Anonymous]

Never.

I have a sophomore and Senior. Straight A students and I never opened canvas or hounded them about work by the time they reached 6th grade. Their elementary school did a great job at getting the kids to be stop sufficient and organized.

[Anonymous]

^ self sufficient. Boys

[Anonymous]

We pretty much taught our kids in middle school.

Homework was returned and graded but nobody looks at wrong math answers and Reyes he’s what they missed.

We read the books our kids read in middle and discuss them.

We showed them how to create study sheets and quiz them for tests.

[Anonymous]

I spot check my older DS (now a freshman) but not my younger DS, the 6th grader. It depends on the kid.

I would be surprised if the 6th grade teachers asked us to go over homework. It would be against the overall philosophy of the middle school, which is to encourage independence and responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS's 6th grade teachers strongly recommend parents look over homework, because it's "an easy way to produce better grades." I don't think they're suggesting we give answers, but more point out where things might be wrong or accidentally missed. Is this normal?

No, I don’t check homework. That would be a pastime job and stressful for me and child. I do try to check to make sure it’s been done.

[Anonymous]

I’d be curious to know how many people here use tutors?

[Anonymous]

I have one slippery kid -- he'll try to get away with skipping a few problems, so I do check his work. And I'll ask the kids if they want me to proofread papers. That's it.

[Anonymous]

I do. It is much more meaningful to learn to understand a math problem vs just getting it marked wrong. We'll do a similar example problem for understanding and then he can re-do the originally assigned problem. I don't correct the work he's redone though, so its not like he's guaranteed a 100% on all homework.

[Anonymous]

6th grade - kid had zero homework sadly (don't get me started).

7th/8th - i'll look at writing when DD asks me to and do copy edit suggestions. I think teachers should be doing this and since they are not it's the main way to help improve her writing skills.

[Anonymous]

Only if/when one of my kids ask.

[Anonymous]

I think they parents who don’t check have kids who can learn with minimal feedback or have kids who are just naturally able to do well with the level of instruction given at school. I was that kid and my parents would have happily declared that school was my job. But I don’t have that kid, so I have to be more active with their homework. It is what it is.