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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is zero vertical articulation between elementary and middle schools. 6th grade teachers are basing their view of 7th grade on who knows what—certainly not the input of the 7th grade teachers.

Research has shown homework to be relatively useless. Those who need more practice either don’t do it, or do it incorrectly. Those who do it  don’t need it. Kids are stressed enough. Little/no homework is a good thing.

—MS teacher[/quote]
I wouldn't call reading a novel at home for in-class analysis and discussion, useless. This kind of homework was fairly common 15 years ago in any middle school English class (7/8). [/quote]

Yeah, even a 200 page book takes time to read. Idk how you’d do it without homework. MS teacher PP - do you just have your kids spend hours reading silently in class? [/quote]

I teach math, I don’t know what the English teachers do. I know that the vast, vast majority of my formerly assigned homework was either completely wrong (waste of time, creates worse mathematical habits), done by photomath (waste of time, gives me the wrong sense of what a kid knows), or done perfectly well in 37 seconds (waste of time, they clearly already knew everything). Maybe 1 or 2 out of the 30 kids got something out of it in any given class period, and those were the kids with tutors or parents helping them.

Nowadays I assign an in class activity and pull the kids I know are struggling (having done multiple formative assessments throughout the block) to work with me. If they don’t finish it in my presence they complete the last few problems at home, but usually it is all completed in the class period.

Remember also that we are now on block and have built in a 90 minute period every other day that is essentially study hall and silent reading. I often see kids reading class novels during my advisory block and frequently have a full house of kids coming for extra math support.[/quote]

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