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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. We need to go the opposite direction and restore it in ES and MS. [/quote]+1[/quote]

I agree! Restore homework, especially in upper ES and in MS!

If MS students had 20-30 minutes of homework for each class they take each day, they'd only have 60-90 minutes of homework each night because they only take 4 classes each day, and certain classes (PE and Mascot Time) do not have homework. So even if a kid had a tough schedule (four core classes in one day), that means their other day is much easier, so they can split the homework up over the two days.

The schools not giving homework is contributing to the laziness of this generation. [/quote]
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4 x 30 is 120 minutes aka 2 hours. You want 12-14 year old kids to spend upwards of 8 hrs per week on homework?[/quote][/b]

My kid had a good 2 hrs of HW every night in MS. It prepared him well for a challenging HS and now he thinks college is easy.[/quote]

When you are a student, your "job" is schoolwork.  8 hours a week sounds fine for MS, and probably keeps some kids from getting into trouble online and out of the home.[/quote]

We really need to stop the idea that all MS kids will be nothing but trouble unless kept busy at all times. [b]Their kids[/b], and they should act like it. My friends and I had no problems being kids when we were in MS. No trouble and still had tons of fun.[/quote]

I think you might need to do some English homework yourself.

Homework shouldn't be excessive, but having 20 minutes of math, 20 minutes of World Language, 20 minutes of English, and 20 minutes of other subjects combined is not excessive. [/quote]

80 minutes in one night is a lot.[/quote]

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One hour and twenty minutes ?  Sounds reasonable to me.[/quote]

That isn’t reasonable. Also some students will take longer than the 20 minutes the teacher thinks it will take. So let’s assume 30 min, which now puts the total at 120 minutes. That’s excessive. Plus, kids are tired after a long day and may have an activity. Where does reading for pleasure fit in? It doesn’t if there is this much homework. This is not sustainable.

I think math homework and some pleasure reading or reading an assigned novel is appropriate in elementary school or even in middle. Most assignments can be done in class that support learning.

High school - I think maybe an hour or so would be ok. [/quote]

As has been stated multiple times in this thread, students don't have these subjects every day, so they wouldn't have 20 minutes in each subject every night. They also have advisory to complete at least 20 minutes of work on the days they don't have lessons to complete.

An hour of homework in high school? For real?  :roll:  My high schooler does a minimum of two hours of homework and studying every night and she is fine. She balances school with a varsity sport, as well as a social life, and has no issues. [/quote]

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