What do you do about homework??

[Anonymous]

^homework needs to get *done* by the SN kid like every other kid in the class.

[Anonymous]

I was talking to a special education professor who told me he threw away most of his son's homework because it was so inappropriate for him. Kid just finished graduate school.

[Anonymous]

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I was talking to a special education professor who told me he threw away most of his son's homework because it was so inappropriate for him. Kid just finished graduate school.

Did his kid have an IEP? As a Sp Ed prof, he should have been able to spare his kid all the "inappropriate" HW instead of making him suffer through it needlessly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amen to this!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-wapole/thirty-minutes-tops_b_3861853.html

Please, laundry folding ability is overrated. DH has never folded laundry in his life - It's all sent out except for stuff like underwear and socks which never has to be folded unless he wants to.

I posted earlier about my 1st grader who has homework now and also had homework in K. Busywork or not, homework is prioritized over laundry, sports, and playing. My mother always said a kid's "job" is school and DS will get homework, some important, some not so much, all through school; may as well get used to it now...

Nothing "comes first" .. It's about balance. If your homework (or your job for that matters) is making it so you can not have a healthy body and a healthy mind and family time, then homework (or work)needs to be limited.

But our family emphasize picking jobs that don't suck your soul so maybe we are in the minority.

Why is expecting a kid to do their homework "soul sucking"? It's appropriate homework for DS's age and abilities so I expect him to do his homework. Nothing more, nothing less. DS goes to an immersion language school, Mandarin, and the only way he is going to learn to write Mandarin is if he practices writing the characters over and over b/c there is no other way around it.

are you really this dense and socially inept? I guess you are, so I'll spell it for you:

Not every child has Asperger's. Instead, they have learning disabilities. In that case, the regular class homework might be totally inappropriate for them. One thing that comes to mind is Everyday Math, which is totally worthless BS for many SN kids. My child cried every night we tried to do this. I finally ripped the whole damn book to shreds and shitcanned it. Told the school they needed to get a different curriculum for my son. They admitted that most children with SN can't do this spiral approach to math.

In my first post, I said that if there are learning disabilities or any other SNs, schoolwork issues should be addressed and accommodated in the IEP. That's what IEPs are for.

However, homework issues due to personality, the fact that the kid does not like doing homework, the fact that it interfers with playtime and sports.... Like OP mentioned. Well, too bad. Homework needs to get by the SN kid like every other kid in the class.

Hope that spells it out for you.

This is the special needs board. Of COURSE it's about the learning issues. Again, you are clueless.

[Anonymous]

IEPs and 504s are no guarantee of anything. I have two SN kids and spent years in meetings, writing oh-so-nice emails to teachers, gently reminding them of my kids' special needs. Still...the homework would come home. If a teacher doesn't believe in your child's disability -- which happened to me many times -- it is a constant struggle. It doesn't matter if you're a special ed professor - a teacher is going to do what they want. And if you don't like it, why you'll just have to call an IEP meeting. And the crap goes on and on.

In the meantime, your child is the one who suffers. One of my DD's issues is severe dysgraphia. Writing for her was painstaking and often illegible. Yet her 4th grade teacher didn't believe in dysgraphia and would have her copy over perfectly good homework because it wasn't up to her standards. If you have not lived through the devastating effects of inappropriate homework on a SN child, you have no business commenting.

This is topic is NOT AT ALL about lazy kids who want to play video games instead of doing homework. This is a mental health issue.

I am SO GLAD we are no longer in public schools. This post reminds me of the hell that I left behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amen to this!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-wapole/thirty-minutes-tops_b_3861853.html

Please, laundry folding ability is overrated. DH has never folded laundry in his life - It's all sent out except for stuff like underwear and socks which never has to be folded unless he wants to.

I posted earlier about my 1st grader who has homework now and also had homework in K. Busywork or not, homework is prioritized over laundry, sports, and playing. My mother always said a kid's "job" is school and DS will get homework, some important, some not so much, all through school; may as well get used to it now...

Nothing "comes first" .. It's about balance. If your homework (or your job for that matters) is making it so you can not have a healthy body and a healthy mind and family time, then homework (or work)needs to be limited.

But our family emphasize picking jobs that don't suck your soul so maybe we are in the minority.

Why is expecting a kid to do their homework "soul sucking"? It's appropriate homework for DS's age and abilities so I expect him to do his homework. Nothing more, nothing less. DS goes to an immersion language school, Mandarin, and the only way he is going to learn to write Mandarin is if he practices writing the characters over and over b/c there is no other way around it.

are you really this dense and socially inept? I guess you are, so I'll spell it for you:

Not every child has Asperger's. Instead, they have learning disabilities. In that case, the regular class homework might be totally inappropriate for them. One thing that comes to mind is Everyday Math, which is totally worthless BS for many SN kids. My child cried every night we tried to do this. I finally ripped the whole damn book to shreds and shitcanned it. Told the school they needed to get a different curriculum for my son. They admitted that most children with SN can't do this spiral approach to math.

In my first post, I said that if there are learning disabilities or any other SNs, schoolwork issues should be addressed and accommodated in the IEP. That's what IEPs are for.

However, homework issues due to personality, the fact that the kid does not like doing homework, the fact that it interfers with playtime and sports.... Like OP mentioned. Well, too bad. Homework needs to get by the SN kid like every other kid in the class.

Hope that spells it out for you.

This is the special needs board. Of COURSE it's about the learning issues. Again, you are clueless.

And your contribution other than calling me names and complaining is?

I agree with the above pp. Find a better "fit" for your child. That may involve changing schools. I have a nephew who was at a Big 3 who left due to the homework. While he can handle the academics, the amount of homework was making his anxiety issues worse. He's doing much better at a public school with an IEP that gives accommodations for outside school work, homework and long term school projects.