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[quote=Anonymous]One idea might be to set a time (I'd say 15 or 20 min at the beginning, 10 if things are really bad).  If DS works for that amount of time, anything he doesn't finish you will send to the teacher with a note saying he couldn't finish it in the allotted time. You can get the teacher in on this (Hopefully. I was a teacher and would have been okay with this).  It's possible that if he knows he'll only have to try for 15 min, he'll work for that amount of time. Once he's able to do that and realizes it's not the end of the world, you could increase the time or add a break + second 10 or 15 minute work period if he's not finishing in the given time period.

Some say that by 6th grade a student should have 60 minutes of homework, but I think that's completely inappropriate and I don't know many 6th graders who would be able to handle 60 minutes of work after a full school day. I'd say 15-30 minutes of homework seems more reasonable, but I would encourage spending either some of that "homework" time or additional time doing reading of some sort. [/quote]

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