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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers can't win. Parents will complain when there is homework, or they'll complain when there isn't.[/quote]

My experience has been in higher FARMS rate schools umc parents want homework to prove to themselves that their child is learning and doing advanced work

Low FARMs rate school - parents want no homework,[/quote]

[b]Okay, I am certain you have no experience in any such schools. [/b]But then I only have the actual experience of having a student at a high FARMs school and the parents pushing for no homework until at least 2nd grade were all UMC, myself included. Also, I am aware of a discussion on another high FARMs school's listserv where a number of UMC parents were questioning the validity of homework in the early grades. Principal shut the conversation down. It's not the UMC parents who want homework. Administrators are under a lot of pressure to get kids in "gap groups" up to speed ASAP so that their test scores improve. That means everbody gets homework. At least at our school I feel like they are striking a reasonable balance--reading with no logs in K. They get math worksheets and are asked to write in their journals in 1st and 2nd in addition to the reading, but my understanding is that nobody is compelled to do it at all-it's optional and kids won't be punished for not doing it. I think many UMC parents opt out for everything but the reading. It's a reasonable enough policy for me. 
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so unless my experience is not exactly like yours, then it's not valid and couldn't have happened?[/quote]

No, it just sounds very far removed from more recent conversations happening at the high FARM's schools I am familiar with (I have friends who are involved in PTAs at a number of them). I have to ask: what do you consider "high FARMs" and how recent was your experience? [/quote]

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