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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 6th Grader at Deal Middle School in Ward 3. He spent last weekend doing 3! reading assignments (one must be written EVERY NIGHT of the weekend) and 3! SCIENCE assignments. THREE SCIENCE ASSIGNMENTS. You know the kind where you the parent have to go out in the pouring rain on the weekend and buy STRYOFOAM BALLS and so on...They have had 2 hours of homework every night and 3-4 every weekend since the school year began. It interrupts every day of the weekend. Go to your music lesson and swimming on Sat (which he loves!) then the drudgery of homework Sat afternoon.  I'm convinced that the teachers and admins there just have no clue about the realities of family life. Kids need downtime with their families. We have PLENTY of educational activities that we engage in as families. We don't need school to structure our activities for us! We don't have time to go to a museum or visit relatives anymore. Religious school is just crammed in there. It's crazy and I really, really hate it.
Seriously: the Tic-Tac-Toe type assignment where the kid has to do 3 of the projects: paper, drawing, whatever? Stop it , please! It's too much. One of these assignments would be enough to get the learning concept through. 3 of them is over kill busy work. Many parents end up dragging their kids through all this work after school.[/quote]

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