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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a very wealthy FCPS school (now in second grade) and my son never received homework last year other than read for 15 minutes.[/quote]

Uh... Do you mean you are wealthy?
Because the FCPS where your child attends is not wealthy. 
(Me thinks you mean the area is high income.)
And while we're on it, how does the income have anything to do with the homework? Smh. [/quote]
I mentioned it because OP said they were at a Title 1 school. My point was that I don't the fact that the hw seems too easy has anything to do with the school's neighborhood.[/quote]

OP here and mentioning wealth is not at all out of line and was part of my question. My concern was that because we are in a title 1 school (high FARMS and ESOL) that the first grade pace was extra slow/a lot of time was being spent at the beginning of the year on reinforcing what was done in Kindergarten . I was curious if other school in FCPS are doing more advanced things or if what my son is working on is typical of first grade. I do know that a lot more time in the class is spent on "language arts" so i can see why a lot of the homework is math. I was just surprised that a lot of the math is basic addition (adding numbers 1-10).

Others made some good point about there being a lot more learning going on behind the scenes/aside from what I am seeing in terms of worksheets that are coming home. We do have teacher conferences coming up so I will see if the teacher can give me more info on what they are doing in the classroom.[/quote]

Shorter pp: She wants to know if they go extra slow in Title 1 schools to accommodate the poor brown kids.

The answer, pp, is no. Most of the first grading period of any grade in ES is spent reviewing what was learned previously.[/quote]

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