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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, most teachers penalize students who don't do homework with bad grades.[/quote]

Penalize? The homework is an assignment. If it is not completed, the student cannot have earned points for it. Having several assignments where they earn zero out of an allotted number of possible points will obviously reduce the student's grade. It's not a "penalty", it's a direct and logical result of what the student's decisions and efforts have EARNED.

I want my kid to learn that she EARNS grades or other measures of performance evaluation based on the quality of the work she submits for evaluation. I would not phrase your point the same way you did because it smacks of a "the teacher gave me a bad grade" mentality and entitled attitude that will not serve anyone well in school or in life.

My kid will do all assigned homework to a high standard of quality, because I want her to learn to take pride in work that bears her name. She's a student -- doing assigned work is part of her duties as a student. If I believe that the obligations placed on my young student are inappropriate, I have the right to seek out a private school placement where the homework philosophy better aligns with what I find acceptable. However, I fail to see how it is remotely acceptable to teach my kid she has the right to just decline to do an assignment which was given to her, for other than serious ethical considerations. That wouldn't fly at work or in life, so why would I get her in that habit now in school?
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