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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another teacher here:
It should be 10 min per grade so 3rd grade should have 30 min per hw max.
My DD often had more than that, but she only resisted or was openly upset when doing hw with my XH. We're working on resolving that this year.
See if you can have your DD's IEP updated to include a no HW accommodation or at least reduced workload for HW. The only time as a teacher I've been less supportive of parents who are struggling with homework is when I assigned something as preparation for the next day's class and the parent wanted the child to turn it in two days later for full credit which completely ignored the purpose of the assignment (to ready the child for the next lesson).[/quote]
Ugh - this makes me ill to think we expect our fifth graders to be doing close to an hour of homework a night. [b]Is two hours expected in high school?[/b] At what point do we say the system is broken if we can't teach our children during the 8 hours they are in the classroom.[/quote]

Yes, many of my students who are full IB (or who take a lot of APs) spend two hours on homework many nights, and sometimes more.  It is about priorities, I suppose.  Did you really never have two hours of homework a night in high school?  How very odd.  You didn't take many advanced classes, then?

I don't think that "close to an hour" of homework is out of order for a fifth grader, and I spent that much time on homework in fifth grade myself!  I had Math and Reading every night, and I remember a lot of note taking and memorization for Social Studies as well.  My DS spent at least this much time on his homework in 5th grade, and he also had a lot of group projects to do outside of school that we never had when I was a kid.  I'm very glad that we raised him to be responsible because now he's at college on a full scholarship.  What were you doing in fifth grade?[/quote]

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