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[quote=Anonymous][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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I'm in PG County and one of my kids does have a 504 instead of an IEP.  Without giving too much away he has 4 disabilities that all effect the brain but an incredibly high IQ.  We were told by his school that they hadn't ever seen a kid equally as brilliant (their word) and disabled.  It's kind of a difficult place to be for him because his IQ is being used against him when it comes to qualifying for services.  He does well with learning via technology but not with learning in the traditional methods.  The way CC is set up is not good for him at all especially since it uses different verbiages and steps.

Ironically, I grew up on NY, and one of my elementary teachers is employed by CC and she has had an instrumental part in setting up the curriculum.  She started using it on her K students before it was implemented state wide.  Starting kids off that way is one thing but doing a huge switch like this is difficult for the older students.  Especially those with learning disabilities, ADHD, or on the spectrum.  These kids have gone from "learning" to spew out answers for tests to a large work load and the majority of the kids I know are having difficulty adapting.  My disabled kid went from a 4.0 to 1.0 and that was with his teachers being generous.  He's not designed to sit there and crank out work all day and there have been many days where he's just shut down completely and refused to do any work at all.  He's of course the kind of kid that doesn't respond to rewards or punishments.

My other kids got a 3.5 and a 3.6 because I'm not pushing for them to finish all of their homework every day. If they do the majority of it, for each subject, that's good enough for me.  I just don't want them to get zeros on their work because those are hard to recover from.  Besides, homework accounts for just 15% of their grade, so if they get a "C" on it, I don't feel like it's a huge deal.  These kids are (and I may totally give myself away) in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade and college preparation is what is being drilled into them at elementary level.  If they keep going like this they will burn out and end up in a trade school instead of university.

We are just entering the second quarter of the school year and I'm hoping for some change.  I just know that the teachers at our school aren't happy with the change, the majority of parents and students aren't either.  I get that change isn't easy, look how people freak about facebook layout changes, so I hope that eventually things will smooth out.  Right now though it's really difficult.[/quote]

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