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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homework in Pre-K is developmentally inappropriate. If you want your child to integrate classroom learning into activities at home, then find out what they're doing, and create the activities for yourselves. What is with parents in this city rushing to make their kids grow up too fast? The older they get, the less children play, and the more homework they're assigned. Everything has a time and a season. 3 and 4 year olds should learn through creative play and discovery. It really is OK to let a kid just be a kid, without shoving all manner of academics down their throats. Ridiculous.[/quote]

Seriously, for the couple of minutes it takes every night, it's not a big deal. Who cares? It's all part of the learning process. And the assignments are tied to what the kids are learning in the classroom, so this IS the way many of us find out what our kids are learning, so it helps us to incorporate that into our daily activities.

I don't disagree that kids should be kids, but I don't see a problem with [b]minor homework assignments in preschool.[/b][/quote]

Seriously, this IS the problem. How can 'homework assignments' and 'preschool,' even sit side by side in the same sentence? It's PRESCHOOL for goodness sakes! Why do you feel preschoolers need any type of 'assignments' at all? Soon people will be advocating for 'assignments' in toddlerhood, and then infancy. Any school that is assigning homework at such an early age should be able to provide sound evidence about why they feel it is necessary or beneficial.  Seriously. It's absurd, it's wrong, and it's pushing your child into a mold and frame of thought that just makes no sense. Have you ever stopped to consider for even a minute that whatever is being 'assigned' to your child, may not be something they're even ready to process, or something that they're even interested in? Children develop at such different paces. Do you know if the homework is differentiated for each child, or is the same 'assignment' just slapped onto the whole class, in a 'one size fits all,' type of manner. Homework, or 'assignments' (or whatever the heck you want to call them,) can wait until the older grades, and you'll be doing your child a huge favor if you're able to recognize that and advocate for it. [/quote]

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