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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Million dollar question - does a student really need 1 hour of HW a night in middle school, or is 0-15 minutes ok? If it's reviewing concepts like in language or math, and not just busywork, that makes sense. How does MCPS not assign math or language hw?[/quote]

I have a 7th grader who went FCPS -> private, and from no homework in 6th to 1+ hour a night. For her, we already knew from 6th grade that not reviewing math concepts was causing issues. She understood everything just fine as it was taught, but she'd make careless mistakes because she would forget due to lack of practice. For language arts she read all the time but really didn't feel comfortable with the basic literary analysis they do in elementary school because it was never explicitly taught and practiced - she was just expected to kind of do it. With writing she was told things like "vary your sentence structure" without being taught enough grammar to even know what that meant. Social studies concepts never stuck because most social studies learning was projects. She would know her particular project OK, but quickly forget whatever her classmates were supposed to be "teaching" the class through their projects. Science was basically non-existent.

Now there's just a lot more committing basic concepts to memory that form a basis for mastery of each of the subjects. She's having to catch up to her peers that have been at the school for longer and who committed some of these concepts to memory in elementary school (especially in science and grammar). What is review for them is sometimes initial learning for her. That makes the learning curve steep, but at least she's getting it before high school.

I don't expect the load to go down next year because the classes will be harder, but I expect each class to take less time in the evenings.[/quote]

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