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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or just no free time or electronics until it's done. We rarely fight about homework because they can't have free time until it's done.  Sometimes they are slow but it's rare. My 7th grader cares about his grades but my 4th grader doesn't - but he still works hard to get his free time[/quote]

This is generally us, too.  My 4th grader in HGC sometimes has a ton of HW.  Some days he gets almost no free time.  Most of that is due to him dawdling and/or procrastinating.  He's been learning the hard way that if you dawdle/procrastinate too much, then you end up with almost no free time.

I have stopped checking HW for accuracy or even completeness.  Generally, he's been doing fine on his own.  I look through all the papers he brings home at the end of the week.  If I started seeing more bad grades than good grades, then I'd probably start reviewing the HW more and maybe have them do extra work to make sure they understand the material, but thankfully, this hasn't happened..knock on wood.

We have always had the "HW first" rule, too.  [/quote]

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