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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t kid yourself, people. People with resources have their kids do extra work (after school, on weekends, or at least during the summer) even if there isn’t homework assigned by the school. Especially private school kids. You know, the other kids your child will be competing against when applying to college.

The gap keeps widening and widening… [/quote]

And keep in mind, APS isn’t ending homework because it is never beneficial. No-HW policies are aimed at narrowing the achievement gap.[/quote]

Their homework is to read for at least 30 minutes.  Always has been.  Totally appropriate, too.  As an Oakridge parent, I also appreciated the flexibility.  If we had a busy night, I’d have mine skip it and read for an hour the next.

[b]The folks that get upset about the no homework never make their kids read and let them have iPads all night.  Then they complain and blame it on the school when they’re not successful.[/b][/quote]

Total over generalization.  I don’t think kids in k-3 “need” homework, but in 4-5, meaningful practice of math or writing skills as a way to learn to manage time in advance of middle school (when middle school had homework) is not abhorrent to me.  Im fine with the no-graded-homework policy because kids don’t control their schedules.  There’s middle ground on this.  [/quote]

+1.  And for the kids whose parents can’t or won’t supervise homework, that’s probably not going to change in later years when homework will be required.  So I’m not sure that it’s really meaningful to eliminate elementary school homework (especially if it’s not graded) from an equity perspective.  But that’s just a hunch, there may be something I haven’t considered.[/quote]

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