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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP you're quoting and my kid doesn't have a cellphone.  She does most of her homework at the kitchen table with pen and paper.

But she's intellectually ambitious and capable and when faced with open-ended assignments she'll work til she drops.  At first I thought it was just a personality issue, but when the assignments are less open-ended, she works quite efficiently.  It's not subject-specific either.

Throw progressive education into this mix (meet the student where she's at and help her take it to the next level) and expectations/standards can pretty quickly cycle out of control.  Especially for a kid with broad academic interests.

I'm a teacher myself and I know how often we construct assignments without imagining ourselves doing them (much less doing them on top of all the other things our students have to do).  But I also know that if someone told me I had to construct an evaluation that would tell me what I need to know about where my students were without taking more than X amount of time, I could do that.  It would take thought and effort and it would probably require policies/reminders/a school culture that held me partially responsible for moderating the demands placed on the kids I teach.)[/quote]

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