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How much homework are your kids getting?
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Anonymous
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I am just curious. This homework thing is really taking over the lives of some families.
Please let me know what grade you child is in and the school district or school. |
Anonymous
| Mine is in first grade. He has 1-2 sheets of homework every night, that takes 5 seconds for him to finish. We are to read every night for 20 minutes and record each book in a weekly log, and now we have added 5-10 minutes of spelling every night for his 2 spelling quizzes per week. Yes I am overwhelmed! I have 3 kids and a fulltime job. |
Anonymous
| My 6th grader, who is in private school, has about an hour and a half at night, plus sometimes projects and studying for tests. |
Anonymous
| Too much!!! My first grader has a book a night (I don't mean a book that we pick-- I mean a book she brings home from school, that has to be entered and logged-- so it actually often interferes with finishing the books we all want to be reading together at home). Plus a worksheet each night. It drives me crazy. The worksheets are seriously stupid (and often so poorly photocopied that I can't read the instructions). I work-- and with children too young to handle homework entirely on their own, it's a huge burden for parents, forcing us, every night, to choose between homework and other activities that are, in my view, actually more valuable.... |
Anonymous
| My 3rd grader has 30 minutes of reading an night, plus a math worksheet that she's usually completed before she even gets home (which makes me wonder how challenged she is in math). On a weekly basis, she has spelling words to learn and sometimes short projects like a book report or science/nature journal to write in. |
Anonymous
| 2nd grader each night has: 1. spelling assignment (quick, usually just to get them to practice their words); 2. reading (must read a book of her choosing and enter on a log); 3. math worksheet (usually just one or two pages). Homework for first grade was WAY more intense. It's nice that it's lighted up, but I also wonder about how challenged she is. Kindergartener has no homework at all save rare quick projects (collect leaves, etc.) |
Anonymous
| My 7th grader (private school) gets 1.5-2 hours per night, plus projects and tests that can be time consuming. This seems appropriate to me as he still has plenty of time for all his other activities. DD in the same school/same grade spent signficantly more time on her homework because it just took her a lot longer. |
Anonymous
| You know, the US is trailing the more developed world in education, and given the attitudes I'm reading here, I'm not surprised. Here, education seems to be given a back seat to the parents' schedules and convenience. My kid has quite a bit of homework, and that's as it should be if he wants to do well academically. If he didn't, I'd assign him some! Sheesh, talk about whining! If you want to achieve, you've got to work! Last year my other son had one of these "cool" teachers who hardly gave them any homework. Now I'm having to tutor him to make up for all the stuff that wasn't covered last year. |
Anonymous
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Maybe we wouldn't mind the homework if it wasn't so mind numbingly boring and ill-thought out.
I didn't mind having my kid read every day, but writing down the name of the author and illustrator took three times as long, resulted in tears and frustration, and was outside his skill level. I did mind that the books were SO INCREDIBLY BORING that they taught him that reading was a chore (we also ended up finding our chosen books got displaced...) This year, I mind that we spend time EVERY NIGHT on rounding and other math skills my child knew two years ago... you wouldn't hear me complain if it wasn't busy work. So, yes, 16:44, I appreciate some of what you are saying, but some of the "whining" is about a real problem. |
Anonymous
Actually, studies have shown that homework does not help academically at all - basically adds no value. |
Anonymous
| I would add that there is evidence that US kids are spending a ton of time on homework, without results to show for it, so something is off. |
Anonymous
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MY oldest 5th Grader in Public School get 15 minutes if that of homework a night plus 20 minutes reading and 20 minutes of writing.
My 2nd who is in K at a private school has a book to read to me every day and a writing assignment that goes along with the book. On top of that he has another writing assignment or math assignment. We are not allowed to help them with the writing assigments.  They have to sound out and spell all the workd them selves. One day he asked me how to spell a word he was using in his sentence and I told him and I got an email from the teacher the next day not to spell words for them. 
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Anonymous
| DS is in kindergarten - no homework yet, but it's coming. But other Arlington County schools start the kids with homework immediately, which is crazy in my opinion. That said, we "quiz"/work with him on stuff we know he's learning at school but in a fun way. And we read at night. |
Anonymous
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My daughter is at NCS where they now have a policy of limiting homework. In the middle school its now no more than 15 or 20 minutes a subject. I am thrilled. They haven't sacrifice anything in terms of the rigor of the materials but this gives the kids a chance to actually think about and maybe even enjoy what they are learning.
My 3rd grade son, at another private school has 45 minutes to an hour. If it gets to be more than an hour, I cut him off with the full support of his teachers. |