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As long as homework is in fact reinforcement of what's being learned in school then it's valuable and can he considered parental involvement if done together or even if a parent just checks it when it's done. The parent is involved in creating a home-school partnership, which is important for children to see. [/quote]

I honestly don't understand where this idea of the "home-school partnership" with parent involvement comes from. It was absolutely not the expectation in my middle-class, academic, Midwestern, public-school experience in the 1970s and 1980s.  [/quote]

And, I bet your parents never told you to forget about your homework, either.[/quote]

No, they didn't, but that's partly because I'm the PP who didn't have any homework until 7th grade. However, when I did then have homework, I did it myself. My parents would have been astonished at the idea that it was their parental obligation to help me with my math, chemistry, or English homework. In fact, they are astonished now. I supplement with my children at home for math, and my parents are always asking, "Why do you make them do extra math? Don't they have math at school?"[/quote]

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