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[quote=Anonymous]My kid has an injury that means he can't practice his sport, which means he suddenly has a lot of free time.

He told me he is going to spend that time working ahead in math, so that when he goes back to practice he has less homework.  Of course, he doesn't know exactly what the HW is going to be.  His teacher often assigns "even problems" or "odd problems" or "1 - 10 and 20 - 25".  So, he plans to just do all the problems, keep them in a binder and then turn in the pages that contain the problems that get assigned, which means he'll be turning in extra problems.

Yes, this means he does twice as much work.  Yes, I think it's odd.  He is often odd but in ways that seem harmless, and I have learned to just let him do his odd thing most of the time.

But I'm wondering if this is fair to the teacher.  Is making the teacher look through pages of work to find the problems to grade reasonable? I also worry the teacher is going to get the idea that my kid doesn't respect his instruction if he's doing the work before the teacher teaches the concept.  My kid really likes this teacher, and says their instruction is good, so he doesn't intend to be disrespectful.

If you're a teacher, would this bother you?  [/quote]

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