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I agree HW in kindergarten is ridiculous. But, this school assigns homework.

What message does it send to your kid when you basically say, "let's ignore the homework for now, maybe we'll care about it more in the future, but for now your teacher can spit in a bucket"?  I wouldn't want to have to explain to this kid, next year, why you suddenly care about homework and the teacher. [/quote]

When we have been in this position, I pretended that the teacher was not making an age-inappropriate demand and told my kid that while she said "Do X," what she meant was "Do [reasonable thing]" and said I would e-mail her to make sure she knew what was up. And then I sent a cheerful e-mail saying "Doing everything you're asking would take DC 20 minutes, and that would be with me nagging him, so I explained that you just want him to practice accomplishing something on his own. He'll be bringing in whatever he can get done in 5 minutes. Let me know if you want to discuss this further."

Yeah, I might have been her nightmare, but she was mine, so I figured we were even. My goal is for my kids to be able to do 10 minutes of homework X their grade, ON THEIR OWN, plus 30-60 minutes of independent reading. So far, so good (oldest is in HS).[/quote]

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