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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours does not.  Homework isn't [b]developmentally appropriate[/b] in Kindergarten.[/quote]

You don't get to decide what is developmentally appropriate for all kindergarteners. You only know what your own child's limits are. Mine do homework just fine and their penmanship has improved through enforced practice. I'm very thankful my children's kindergarten teachers have taken the time to put together the handwriting packets personalized to each student's particular needs because it's a p.i.t.a. to make those.[/quote]

I'm not just saying that, that's what the national organizations and experts say (including my mom who had a PhD in early childhood education and taught for 50 years).

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/kindergarten-homework-too-much-too-early/2018/11

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/should-kids-get-homework#:~:text=The%20key%20to%20effective%20homework,in%20first%20and%20second%20grade.

https://parentingscience.com/homework-for-young-children/

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These studies are not able to account for parental academic enrichment on the side, which is their fatal flaw.

When schools and teachers don't assign homework, half the parent create it themselves--unbeknownst to the teacher, school, and education researchers. That's why much of the educational research on anything but poor kids is so bad. Poor kids definitely get most of their education from school, but for everyone else, there are tons of other factors that just go over researchers' heads.[/quote]

If you have actual evidence for that and that homework is effective for Kindergartens, go ahead and post it.  But asserting you know better than the experts with no support?  Nope.[/quote]

You want validation for your personal preference so you accept poorly design studies that dont properly control for variables. Nope. [/quote]

Yes because they can do double blind studies in real world settings.  You're dismissing science and experts based on your own opinion, offer no actual support for your opinion and think that's valid?

Yeah, that's not a reasonable way to make education policy.[/quote]

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