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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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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I think the idea was that all schools are moving to no homework because of trends toward equity, and elementary is where it’s least necessary, so let’s start there. But no, not all schools have gotten rid of homework and sixth graders are expected to magically adjust. It was hell for my sixth grader, especially because she had ADHD but I didn’t know it because she never really had to do work in elementary school.

I think they are going to keep doing this: reducing academic standards in accordance with an ideal that doesn’t exist, which serves them horribly as they keep progressing to the next phase of life. And I’m pretty leftist and I even buy into the idea that a lot of our school expectations come from arbitrary cultural standards, but for now if you want to survive in capitalist America you’d do well to learn to turn things in on time. [/quote]

We are also left leaning, but, are honestly considering leaving the area given all of the challenges with the schools here (behavior, drugs, violence--and yes, I know there is no utopia where it doesn't exist, but, the urban nature of this area seems to create an abundance of these issues not necessarily present in large suburbs in other parts of the country) and the bars just being continuously lowered for the lowest common denominator. We're not anti-equity, but, we want our kids to have solid academic foundations that enable them to pursue whatever they want in life.[/quote]

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