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[quote=Anonymous]My child's 3rd grade teacher had a minimal homework policy this past year and it was fantastic.  They usually had 1 math worksheet per night.  Occasionally there was an English assignment instead.  Some days there was nothing.  It never took more than 15 min.  The teacher also allowed them to work on homework assignments in class if they finished their other work early.  There was no reading log.  It made our home life so much better.

My other child was in K and they got a calendar at the beginning of each month with an assignment to do each weekday.  Most were super easy.  "Draw a picture of a helper in the community" or "Draw a picture that solves the problem 3 + 2 = "  We usually did a whole week in one sitting and it would take us 15 min.  Once we did the whole month in a day.    It was great!

Both kids did great academically.  My 3rd grader got straight A's at the end of the year and my K was reading at the 2nd grade level (she started out at the equivalent of the end of K).

Anyway, in my kids having little to no homework had no negative impacts and made our evenings less stressful.  Now, I'm not sure how that would translate for kids struggling academically.

One of the teachers told me that some of the students don't have parents who can help them with their homework or aren't around to help them and make them do the work.   Some of it is language barriers, some of it is work schedules and in the minority of cases it is just indifference.  The teacher felt that it wasn't fair to the kids to give a lot of homework and then punish the kids that just couldn't get it done by giving them a low mark.

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