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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no HW anymore in middle school...

But you can keep track of "missing assignments" by having an observer account in canvas, and looking on parentvue. No, the teacher will NOT email you. Can you imagine doing that for 4 classes of children?[/quote]

I mean it’s really easy, mark it as missed in Canvas or what not, and the system can notify via ParentVUE — isn’t that happening?

But the FAQ PP posted says they would get 30 min per core class of homework, did you see an updated policy?[/quote]

The FAQ does not look updated.  It has the old dismissal time of 2:24pm instead of the current 2:35pm.  This past June, APS cut middle school homework back for 2022-23, from 20 min/night per course for regular homework to 11 minutes/night per course.[/quote]

What was rationale for decreasing assigned homework?[/quote]

Equity (not all students have a home situation that lends itself to doing homework) and decreasing student stress.[/quote]

So is it a temporary measure until they build systems to help support students at home (such as ext study groups or something), and reduced student stress should be less of an issue with the waning pandemic.[/quote]

There was no mention of it being temporary. The prior Homework Policy was from 2007 so updates are infrequent.

While you make a good point about pandemic stress, they seem to be focused on stress that occurs in high-achieving, high-income districts, where students load up on coursework and activities.[/quote]
Did they lower the demands of homework in high school and do they expect there to be less homework in college? That was part of why it started in middle school was to ramp up expectations and build study skills delaying it will make things worse.[/quote]

They lowered homework for high school as well from 30min/night per course for regular homework to 15min/night per course. This does not apply to AP, IB, and DE courses, however. They did not address how this might affect students when they go to college.[/quote]

Why not make honors courses in middle school to prep students for AP IB etc?[/quote]

APS will offer new middle school honors courses in English, Social Studies, and Science next year. The content coverage will be the same as regular courses but students will do more involved papers and projects. The new honors courses are not designed to prep students for AP or IB courses per se, but should give them more chances to write and research which should help down the road. Math has its own set of middle school honors courses already which does cover additional content and ultimately prepares students for AP and IB.[/quote]

Part of why they are eliminating homework is because class size has increased everywhere.

APE can be over the top, but you can size the huge jump in the number of classes over 27 students on their graphs

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60e8ac2567e7c27959b6ff45/t/61ee0efcbe6e285b237d7f37/1642991356737/Class+Size+research+v2+1-23-22.pdf

With that many students, teachers don’t have time or energy to read and grade homework, and I’m sure those honors classes will be just as large which means the students may write more, it is unlikely to be critiqued and edited well enough by their over burdened teacher to develop their research and writing skills.

Now if they have a test in or teacher rec only option, and cap the honors class size that can really help prep the students. [/quote]

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