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[quote=Anonymous]My children's homework is graded for completeness, not accuracy, which is fine with me.  The schools they go to do suggest that parents help their kids with their homework.  If my kids know how to do the work but make a careless mistake, my help is, "Hey, take another look at this problem."  If they don't know how to do it, I will teach it to them.  So fine, no problem there.  [b]I'm not interested in being told not to look at the homework because I am following the school's approach.[/b]

I notice a lot of mistakes that are not tied to the homework.  For example, my kid brought home a science worksheet that is rife with spelling and grammar mistakes, but not necessarily wrong.  Would you correct that?  I worry about discouraging a kid with too many corrections, but at the same time, he's got to learn to check his work for things like your/you're or to/too/two mistakes or subject/verb agreement or capitalizing proper nouns.  These are things that he has been taught and knows when completing a worksheet geared towards that lesson but does not pay attention to if it is not being specifically addressed.  It kills me to see it, but it's 6th grade, not a job interview. [/quote]

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