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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need to help your kid with his homework?
Unless there is a problem they should be doing it on thier own, statting in kindergarten.[/quote]

Not so fast.  I help my kids when they have exhausted all they know.  Sometimes the instructions are not that clear when they are in school nor does the work look the same when they get home.  A little more explanation, a little more reasoning goes a long way.  Give them similar examples to use and guide them without answering the questions out right.  This challenges them to think more.  No parent wants to have their child go to school without the homework being done.  If you don't help them then you may appear as not caring and if you don't care enough to help them who will?[/quote]

Then the teacher is not giving correct homework. Homework is meant to be practice. I'm a teacher and don't understand why other teachers send work home and expect the parents to teach. I get that we have common core and such, but homework has gotten out if control. There are studies out there if you want to look for them that show homework in ES is unnecessary and doesn't help the way teachers think it will. [/quote]

If you're a teacher then you should know how you were taught is nothing like how today's kids are being taught.  I'm not familiar with your curriculum but I have found that teachers are told now to cover more material in a shorter time span. Last year my kids school had four marking periods, now its three.  Students don't bring text books home like they used to because past students wrote in or lost books.  They have students reading a story and the kids are supposed to take some notes to write about the story when they get home.  UHH?  Really?  The kids can't hear the story because the kids talks low and they can't bring the book home. Take notes, heck they are in fourth grade not college.  I had to tell my son to take notes because the teacher didn't instruct them to do so nor do they even know how to do it accurately.  My son had a science project (he's in 4th grade)  and needed to write a report.  When I told him he had to include references he looked at me like I had two heads.  The teacher never told the class how to write a report and what to include.  Even though the hand out showed a reference  section. In the past the teachers covered a lot of material in a longer time frame.  This allowed teachers to make their own lesson planned because they knew what to cover and by when.  Now the lesson plans are created for them and there is no swaying from it.  So you now have get it if you can and if not go else where for help.  Which means Kumon, Sylvan Learning Center, etc.

Therefore you have to help your kids.  I agree its excessive but remember be careful what you ask for.  We want to compete nationally so we throw out all we have learned in the past and know how other countries teach their kids just to implement testing.  As if somehow a test is the only way of measuring a child success.  That wasn't how I was taught and I went on to become an engineer.  We allowed our educators to implement these strategies to somehow justify we are doing better by test scores.  I know I covered a lot here and sure will get some type of feedback but its what I have seen in my sons school and it was just in a short time.[/quote]

I'll give you feedback. What you wrote here is true, well-stated, and there will be haters, because .... truth is hard to take.

Well done PP, well done! Truly![/quote]

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