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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader is at St Ann school, and its hardly a sweatshop and we get homework M-Th. Like a list of vocab words to learn, read 3 chapters of a book and answer questions on a worksheet about those chapters, read a science chapter and then complete a worksheet on the water cycle.  And always math homework, which are just a sheet of problems on the topic learned today to practice the computation by hand.

I am surprised they aren't learning that in middle school.  We were going to return to APS and enroll at DHMS, do they have the same no to low homework policy?[/quote]

I'm surprised your kid is doing so much on paper.  I assume worksheet means an actual worksheet?

The move to electronic assignments makes a ton of sense and I don't understand parents of our generation who seem convinced they have to do everything with pen and paper in order to prove they are "learning".[/quote]

Oh it’s a mix for sure. But vocab words are done on paper for example to prevent spell check swooping in

Same with math, sometimes it’s good to practice computation and organizing the execution.

But yeah a lot of worksheets are on web. [/quote]

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