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[quote=Anonymous]I think homework in kindergarten is absurd and all of the family projects were painful because I have twins so I had to do all of those projects twice in the same week. It drove me nuts that the teacher would hand out the week’s homework assignments on Mondays and then they were due on Fridays. Especially when a project required us to decorate something as creatively as possible, it sure would have been nice to have the weekend to buy art supplies and get started.

Obviously, most kids don’t achieve fluency with math facts without some practice, and repetition is a key way to master new math concepts, but outside of math homework, there is no homework assignment that will help a child advance academically as much as daily reading. Encouraging intellectual curiosity and providing a constant fresh supply of interesting reading materials does so much to help kids with reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and can help a lot of kids with spelling, plus there’s the benefit of acquiring lots of background knowledge that will serve them in other subjects.[/quote]

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