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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason doesn't matter, don't make your K do a bunch of homework they don't want to do.  Use it as another weekend day.[/quote]

OP here. This has been our approach. However the teachers have started shaming the kids (and parents) who do not complete the assignments. I’m ok with the no school on Wednesdays thing if there’s a good reason behind it but I am absolutely not ok with a teacher shaming 5 year olds bc their parents didn’t have time to do the mandatory homework.[/quote]

Shaming really?

You have a lot of children so you know what to expect for a 5 year old?

Anything the student does now is HOMEwork.  If they can't follow without you standing on top of them its fine - they aren't developmentally supposed to be able to do it solo and the teacher knows that.  She can't say don't worry about it en masse because some can.  But if you can't - tell the teacher.  Its called communication and you must have been able to do that to get the 5 year old in the first place.

I've told my kid's teachers I won't be asking him to do extra work other than class.  if he wants to fine but I won't push him.  I also won't learn new apps - get new logins etc.  I will take photos and email them.

No teacher has shamed me.

My sister teaches in FCPS.  She loves the parents in her kid's school (she teaches 6th grade).  She emails the parents the kids click two buttons and the parents see the kid did the assignment on their side.  But what the kid has done is clicked a link and then not done the work (she can see how long they were logged in for).  This problem lasted as long as it took for her to identify it.  Parent's got an email and kids were punished and done and dusted.[/quote]

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