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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I despise homework.  My fourth grader is often working past 9pm on complicated projects.  She's doing a huge English projects that's going to take several hours a week for three months, and a STEM fair project that's going to consume several hours a week, in addition to her normal 3 hours of homework.  It's gotten downright ridiculous. [/quote]

Where is your kid in school?? I'm in BCC cluster and have not seen demands like this.[/quote]
A public PG elementary school.  It's unreal the amount of work the kids are doing.  We (majority of parents) have addressed it with the school and teachers in both group emails and during PTA meetings.  We even provided the school with survey results from Survey Monkey.  The answer has continuously been that this is a direct result of Common Core and that there should be ten minutes of homework per grade level, well, they switch classes at this grade level now and these kids are getting 40+ minutes of homework from each teacher and additional projects that aren't factored into that time.[/quote]

Common Core does not dictate homework.  Totally ridiculous finger pointing.  Like any curriculum, the school (and/or district) has to identify the skills or objectives within the curriculum that it will focus on.  Maybe this school isn't judiciously selecting the "biggest bang for the buck" objectives, and instead is focusing on "everything?"[/quote]

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