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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher and a mom of two. I teach high school and am also annoyed with the elementary homework that comes home. Last year I stopped helping my 2nd grader. Try what he can for a little while I was making dinner and that's it.  If he didn't get to all of it or did it completely wrong we sent it back anyway. I never heard a thing. I believe homework is meaningless at such a young age. [/quote]

I do the same. I'm not doing anyone any favors by working with child to make sure the homework is correct when the teacher needs to know that in fact child didn't understand it well enough to do it independently.[/quote]

Same here.  We've been pretty lucky that our kids' school have not IMO overburdened them with homework.  In ES teachers generally kept to the district recommendations and I just had to check that it was done.  If it took too long or they didn't understand it, it was sent back to the teacher with a  note about that.  Now in MS my kids are able to do nearly all their MS homework.  I'll quiz them when they are studying for a test and have occasionally helped with printing stuff but that's it.  That's about the level of involvement my parents had with my homework too.[/quote]

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