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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Common Core should have been phased in.  The older kids in our elementary school are suffering but the K and 1st grade kids are having a much easier time.
The amount of work has greatly increased and my 3rd and 4th graders are bringing home 2-4 hours of homework each night.  It's insane.[/quote]

My kids had that, before Common Core.[/quote]

Never should a child that age have that much homework.  It's inexcusable.  Children are suffering because they aren't allowed to be children and they aren't free to run about for a couple of hours before dinner.  There just isn't any time.

My kids come home, have a snack, work on homework for several hours, eat dinner, take a bath, go to bed, wake up, go to school, come home, have a snack......................  Well, they did until I cut them off at a certain amount of time so they could go out and live in the sunshine, ride their bikes, play basketball...  I unlocked the key to childhood obesity and it involved less homework.

I can also say that I don't care that they will receive B's instead of A's on their report cards.  There are more important things in life than grades.  Creative thinking, conflict resolution, social skills, and the like which you can't teach in the classroom. [/quote]

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