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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Where do you live?   What school district?   Do you live in New York State?

Are you the parent who has a child who has a language-based learning disability, but no IEP?   My child had a disability (dysgraphia) which was causing him to spendhours and hours on homework.   This predated Common Core, however.   Fortunately we were able to get him a 504 (not an IEP) which allowed hm to be able to type his answers instead of having to laboriously handwrite them, and we got other assignments modified.   That has made all the difference.

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