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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a new idea.  Research has been out there for many years decrying the value of homework at the elementary level.

As a former elementary teacher, I would agree.

It has always amazed me that parents think it is ok - actually beneficial - for teachers to mandate carrying over school time into the time of families. 
Teachers are dictating how families spend their time. [/quote]

This is such a weird thing to say. If you never assign homework that requires parental assistance, I don't see it as you are dictating family time. [/quote]

If my Kindergartener is doing homework at home, even by himself, that means that we are not doing other things. Hence, it is dictating family time. See now? [/quote]

New poster, and I agree with you.   Do school work at school, family time at home.   Family time is limited, particularly when both parents work outside the home.

FWIW,  I never had homework until middle school, and I was able to cope just fine.  I didn't need to spend 5 or 6 years learning the value of doing homework in elem., so that when helpful homework was assigned in middle school, I'd know how to do it.   [/quote]

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