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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see this is an older thread. This school year 25/26 all grade levels have mandatory homework.  In middle school it does count as part of their grade and there is A LOT of it.
We came from a "no homework" elementary school and this transition is HARD.[/quote]

Ask your child what they are doing during class and advisory. The kids who are bringing home homework tend to be kids with anxiety, learning issues, or ADHD and need more time to process and work OR they are goofing off in class and advisory. It tends to be one or the two. Most teachers leave time for kids to do homework in class so that the kids can ask questions and get help.

DS rarely brings home homework, he is in the AAP program with solid As. We ask him to spend 30 minutes reviewing notes in classes that are not his preferred classes to help him establish the habit of studying at home since we know he will need to do that in HS. Most of his friends don’t bring home homework. His friends with IEPs always have homework and it takes them forever to do it, not because it is hard but because they are easy to distract and get frustrated easily.

[/quote]No. This varies greatly by the school.  Some schools give projects and homeworks all the time.  [/quote]

My kid finishes his work, his friends don’t. They are at the same school with the same assignments. He has homework, I can see it all in SIS. He is able to get his done at school 99% of the time. There is plenty of assigned homework.

Some kids are able to complete it at school. Some try and struggle so they bring it home. Some are goofing off and bring it all home. That is the way of homework. [/quote]

Some teachers and/or schools do it this way (they give [i]classwork[/i] for that 10% homework grade like you are describing, and kids who don't finish it in class can finish it at home) while others give [i]homework[/i] but do not provide in class time to do it. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand. Every teacher and every school is different. This is absolutely not standardized across FCPS - I have a kid at one middle school and friends who have kids at other FCPS middle schools and our kids have all had different experiences with classwork vs homework vs in class group projects vs out of class group projects etc.[/quote]

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