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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Just to be clear here, we would like the school to eliminate non-essential assignments or modify them.  We are not asking to skip any major unit tests, finals, etc.

I sort of understand the teacher's position that every assignment is essential -- some are for building mastery and some are for demonstrating mastery.

But, for our DC, many of the assignments for building mastery are much longer than they need to be.  For example, a child could do a few math problems in a problem set of a dozen identical ones that seek to build skills, and still come away with the necessary understanding.  Sometimes simply reading something, instead of reading and answering Qs (which are simply designed to ensure that you read) is enough.  I understand that it can be tricky to tell how much is enough to ensure mastery and that teachers don't want to hear complaints about failure later.

Some assignments are clearly non-essential no matter what you think about the above paragraph.  Frankly, in middle school we don't think that coloring assignments and word searches are "essential" to understanding.

We are not asking to eliminate demonstrating mastery in any skill area.  But, it's not necessary to demonstrate the mastery of the skill 5 times -- homework, classwork, projects, quizzes and unit tests.  [/quote]

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