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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really understand the hostliilty towards homework in preschool, to be honest. For my class at least, the kids aren't getting hours of drills or anything. They get one math and one literacy hw each night. A literacy hw might be writing down three words in the -at word family. A math hw might be coloring in how many dimes they would need in order to buy something that is 30 cents. I think it is a good thing to keep parents involved - if they sit down with their kids to do 5-10 minutes of hw a night, then they will know exactly what we are working on at school. And while it's great that many parents try to teach their kids at home in different ways, the reality is that many kids don't have that luxury. So the hw we assign might be the only time their parents are really talking to the kids about the concepts they are learning in school. I don't see how a few minutes of reinforcement at home is a bad thing. [/quote]

There's a lot of evidence that this kind of practice in PK leads to lower test scores in the upper grades because kids aren't learning to self-regulate, direct their attention, problem solve etc . . . when they're being spoon fed academics.  [/quote]

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