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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Do private schools avoid this?

Why do schools feel compelled to do this?

I feel like it is crushing my children sometimes, especially the youngest ones where you can either go sledding or do your homework. We usually find a way to do both, but having a ten year old know on Friday afternoon that they have x y and z hanging over their heads that they have to do by Monday, is just not what I remember from 5th grade AT ALL........ and it feels really wrong....[/quote]

PP, you sound like a seriously thoughtful and cool parent, a person I bet I'd like IRL.  For that reason, I'm going to try not to sound like a total dick here.

What you just said in your longer post, and especially the part I've pulled out above^^^, is one of the top 2* reasons we chose an independent school for our kid.  It is not easy, and we are making serious financial sacrifices to do it.

Our kid is in 5th grade now, and he never, ever has homework over a weekend.  He didn't have homework at all really until 4th, and even then it was one reinforcing math worksheet 3 days a week.  (well, and "read for 20 minutes at least.")    As a parent, I choose to believe the considerable research that concludes that homework at  the elementary school level adds little to nothing to critical thinking ability and knowledge retention.  The case in middle school is somewhat more compelling, but not to warrant a crushing homework load.

So we are attempting to buy our way out of what I believe, after thoughtful consideration, is a bullshit model of testing, curriculum = testing, and homework for homework's sake.    ** the other of the top two reasons we save less for retirement than we could in order to pay tuition is the rich curriculum that is not the same as it is at our IB school, Murch.

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