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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what I don't understand, because my child is not in school yet, if the homework is so simple to be meaningless, can't it be completed very quickly?

As someone who had to make a paper mâché map of Vermont in fourth grade, it seems to me that meaningless homework projects have been around for a long time.[/quote] i

Not in my kids' case, at least with certain teachers. Young teachers in particular don't always seem to understand how long the busywork is going to take, so they ask first graders to do something that would take more than 30 minutes to do. That's a lot longer than most first graders can sit and work, and because I am concerned about my kids' long-term work habits, I am not going to turn homework into something that requires me to push them. I expect them to sit down and do their homework or live with the consequences of not doing it, but I don't think it's fair to ask them to do something they aren't developmentally prepared to do and then punish them for not doing it.

And to the PP, I would *love* to be able to sign on for a deal in which we don't pull our kids out of school for fun stuff and don't let them have screen time M-Th, and teachers don't give homework other than reading in the early elementary grades. I would be all over that action, I assure you. [/quote]

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