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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with you completely.  We never did any of the homework packet "homework" the teacher sent home in K.  My DD did ST Math occasionally, but pretty much only if she asked or if I suggested and she wanted to.  We read a ton at night.  As her reading skills improved, she read to us up to 10 minutes per evening, and we read to her maybe 20-25 minutes per night.  Her K teacher told me in her end of year conference that my DD did "great with her homework."  :shock: So she clearly wasn't even keeping very good track of the homework progress/return of the packets.  DD is in 2nd now and doing totally very well in school.  Her 1st grade teacher had minimal homework which she did, which were shorter than the K teacher's assignments and better designedHomework in K is totally unnecessary and ridiculous.  I know kids in very well regarded private schools and *very* high performing public schools in NY, Boston, and Chicago who have no homework at all in K.  Best practices research says 10 minutes of homework per grade (so nothing in K, 10 min in 1st, 20 minutes in 2nd), exclusive of reading.  [/quote]

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