APS homework
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Anonymous
| Should we expect homework in 1st grade? (Claremont fwiw) |
Anonymous
| Have you tried emailing your child's t teacher? |
Anonymous
| Different APS school—our school has a no homework policy. Students are just expected to read for 20-30 minutes at home daily. |
Anonymous
Please re-read what you posted. Reading *is* homework. |
Anonymous
| When my kid was in first at Claremont they only got a handful of hw assignments a year (aside from reading) and mostly it had to do with "projects" (like collecting family pictures or something) |
Anonymous
Not if it isn’t monitored. We aren’t allowed to have a reading log or other verification system. |
Anonymous
I monitor my kids’ reading. |
Anonymous
| I love the no homework policy for elementary school!! Reading is the best thing they can do at that age. |
Anonymous
Are teacher, and if so may I ask why no reading log? |
Anonymous
Seriously, 20 min of reading is all we can squeeze into the evening. 30 min of math of writing would torture, there’s only so many hours after school. |
Anonymous
Not PP but I’m so glad they don’t make us do a reading log. For us those things turned reading into tedious work rather than pleasure. And it’s just a pain. I’m not opposed to homework on principle. But the APS curriculum is not good and what’s the point in doing homework to reinforce a curriculum that is bad? |
Anonymous
That's not the same as the teacher monitoring or homework. Personally, I have kids who read a lot on their own, so I find reading logs onerous. I'm sure they can be useful for some kids who don't read enough on their own and who are box checkers by nature. |
Anonymous
What is wrong with curriculum? |
Anonymous
Nothing worse than most elementary schools these days. Just a lot of teaching “how to think, not what to think,” outsourcing the learning of important knowledge like math facts and grammar lessons to apps that they’re just supposed to do in their spare time, really bad writing composition instruction, teaching skills without content to go along with it (like teaching what a glossary is by doing several lessons on glossaries rather than teaching them about something and having them actually use glossaries to aid in learning that material), etc. It’s not the worse thing in the world but I am just really glad they aren’t making kids do this kind of thing more than they already have to in school. |
Anonymous
There is nothing a teacher can do differently to monitor a reading log than you would, except that you can actually witness it. |