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[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.

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.[/quote]

Wrong. Some of you on here I think have elem kids and haven't been to middle school and are SO smug that your are following the science with no homework. Well good for you, but maybe be more open to what you don't know.

I was upset about the abrupt change to no HW in elementary for my second kid. This is because the school had no explanation for how my executive function challenged kids was supposed to go from zero homework in 5th to heavy homework in 6th. I already knew about how heavy the HW was in 6th from my older one.

No HW in younger elem is great. No HW in uppper elem leaves them totally unprepared for middle school.

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