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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much does it matter to be 'challenged' at school as a kid?
I feel like I was never really challenged until grad school, and it was fine for me. I had more time to do other things, reading other books I liked, going places with my parents w/o stressing about homework, etc.[/quote]
As a mom to kid who is not "challenged" enough at school - to me it means being invited to engage in the subject matter in different ways through extended learning and out of the box thinking. Some of that can be through homework and some through projects that follow the work thematically. My kid was not coming home with homework most days...I find that not only troubling but a lost opportunity to challenge and engage they kids to take ownership in what they are learning. We chose to assign reading from the news that was pertinent to social studies and current events as supplemental. Of course that was met with lots of eye rolling from DD but it also forces her to a) be accountable and find time to do the work b) read and extrapolate information and learn how to discuss what she is reading.  She has several readings weekly and some writing to do with it. All of which totals about an hour a week of work plus the discussion and review of the articles at weeks end with us, so not really excessive amounts of work.
FYI we are at a school which considers itself on the forefront of educational progressiveness with expeditions etc and I find their lack of challenge problematic. We are on our way out needless to say. [/quote]

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