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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My neighbor's kid is in prek4 at our inbounds title one DCPS school and they have homework 4 days a week. It is just a couple of worksheets but I know the parents struggle to get their kids to do it after a long day at school. [/quote]

Totally ridiculous and developmentally inappropriate.  I know a family who also similar experience above and pulled their kid out after their 1st ECE year there and went to a charter.  Much happier.[/quote]

Charters do this too but I am glad it worked out.

Yes, exactly why I will be leaving my school after this year. Worksheet HW is mandatory for my 3 year old students. I send home ideas for exploration they could do with their families and my supervisor chewed me out.

People think it’s about building good habits and teaching kids about responsibility but what this really shows me is the experts on childhood development and brain science aren’t at the higher level in DCPS. In inequitable to allow only some schools to be truly based in play.

The kicker is then they LOWER the standards later! [/quote]

Wow, I really feel for the teachers. :-/

So we have some DCPS giving homework to three-year-olds, with rewards involved, and some not doing required homework until 3rd grade. Interesting… [/quote]

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