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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm joining this late. I'm a teacher and have a second grader. She is given a ridiculous amount of busy work that I amend. The teacher either doesn't know or doesn't care. If the assignment is write each spelling word three times, I don't make her do this if she knows how to spell them already. I also don't make her write each of the fifteen words in a sentence because I've been a teacher and I know an assignment like that will end up with children turning in sentences like "I am excited. I am hopeless". Instead I'll have her write maybe two really strong sentences. She also has to write a paragraph using one or two of her spelling words. I'll have her dictate a long descriptive paragraph to me and then she'll either recopy it over (and correct my mistakes) or I'll dictate it back to her.

The paragraph writing especially teaches her to think through her story ideas and edit her work, something that most teachers don't spend enough time on. In all honesty, I'd prefer she not have to do any of the sentence writing or spelling busywork so we can concentrate on science, history, and piano at home.

I know her needs better than the teacher does and her education is ultimately DH and my responsibility. 
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That's fine but you also can't complain when her grade for homework completion isn't 100%.  I'm a teacher too and I can see your point especially about the spelling words she already knows how to spell correctly.  But you are also teaching her that it is okay to tweak assignments to fit her needs.  What will happen when she gets older and starts questioning her teachers' assignments then?  I'm all for critical thinking but she will also need to understand that it will probably not go over well when she gets older.  In high school and college, either she does the homework or doesn't.  They don't care why she doesn't do it.  They'll just give her a zero.[/quote]

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