Anyone decide to skip homework?

[Anonymous]

My kids are in ACPS and they have homework—4-5 worksheets every week and then reading each night. I’m not really inton homework for kindergartens but we’ve been doing it because so far he likes it. Now, they want us to start completely a nightly reading log. I have read a lot of things about reading logs and how they actually do the opposite of the intended and make reading a chore instead of a pleasure. We already read 2-3 picture books a night and work on reading independently with our second grader. I’m happy to continue reading but I’m just not doing any logs. I want my kids to enjoy reading fire and foremost and also, honestly we are already stressed in the evenings and have very little time to ourselves as it is. Anyone ever refused assignments?

[Anonymous]

I didn’t start homework until 2nd grade. I reviewed the spelling words, but didn’t drill daily. We never did any sheets.

I felt the same way about the reading log.

[Anonymous]

My kids get assigned 20 mins of reading a night but no logs. I read to them every night before bed & count that as the reading homework assignment.

[Anonymous]

You should be fine refusing. You wouldn’t be the first.

[Anonymous]

I despise reading logs. With a passion. They suck the fun out of reading and make reading "work." Blah!

We do read a lot, so I just fill it out without my kids input. I just gather up the books that are on their bedside stand before bedtime and record it myself. They're in 4th grade now, still getting those stupid logs home, and I'm still filling out those stupid forms.

[Anonymous]

OP here....please excuse my terrible typos. I was on my phone and cannot type on it.

Thanks for the commiseration. I just want my kids to love learning.

[Anonymous]

Here is a different perspective. I think your attitude about homework/schoolwork makes a much bigger difference in whether a child loves learning rather than the mere fact of homework. If you act all sad and mad or if you blow it off and act like it isn't important then your kid picks up on it. What you're describing doesn't sound particularly onerous or outrageous. Children in the same grades in privates do a lot more than what you're describing. And frankly ACPS needs all the boost it can get. So if a little homework will help then do it.

[Anonymous]

22:26 there is some pretty so,I’d evidence against reading logs which is what the OP is specifically deciding against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I despise reading logs. With a passion. They suck the fun out of reading and make reading "work." Blah!

We do read a lot, so I just fill it out without my kids input. I just gather up the books that are on their bedside stand before bedtime and record it myself. They're in 4th grade now, still getting those stupid logs home, and I'm still filling out those stupid forms.

Reading instruction in schools does that too BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a different perspective. I think your attitude about homework/schoolwork makes a much bigger difference in whether a child loves learning rather than the mere fact of homework. If you act all sad and mad or if you blow it off and act like it isn't important then your kid picks up on it. What you're describing doesn't sound particularly onerous or outrageous. Children in the same grades in privates do a lot more than what you're describing. And frankly ACPS needs all the boost it can get. So if a little homework will help then do it.

+1 With your snowflake attitude, its sure to mess him up.

[Anonymous]

Reading logs are a waste of time with no proven benefits. We have a new principal who abolished them, and shockingly, the children still learn to read.

[Anonymous]

I teach third grade and don’t assign homework.

I stopped assigning home reading logs when I realized it was turning pleasure reading into a chore.

[Anonymous]

If you are reading every night anyway, how is a reading log such a huge, onerous chore? It takes 5 minutes to write down what your kid read.

I'm not a teacher but I would think that the reading log might help a teacher to identify interests in her students. I never thought that they were a huge, big deal.

[Anonymous]

Our ACPS elementary had a homework calendar in K and 1st. (Write a sentence about X, skip count by 5s to 100). To be honest, we picked and chose what we did in K. In first grade she generally wanted to do it. Although if there were 5 words to write sentences about I would let her pick 2-3. We read every night for pleasure but weren't asked to keep a log.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a different perspective. I think your attitude about homework/schoolwork makes a much bigger difference in whether a child loves learning rather than the mere fact of homework. If you act all sad and mad or if you blow it off and act like it isn't important then your kid picks up on it. What you're describing doesn't sound particularly onerous or outrageous. Children in the same grades in privates do a lot more than what you're describing. And frankly ACPS needs all the boost it can get. So if a little homework will help then do it.

Spot on.