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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is in the 4th grade and has a good and kind teacher, but one who gives an incredible amount of class and homework. DS is constantly behind on the classwork and has 40+ mins of homework every night, plus trying to catch up the classwork. Now they've added studying and prepping for the SOLs. This has been an ongoing battle all year and we have met and emailed with the teacher multiple times. Each time, she listens and says that she doesn't want him to spend more than 20 mins doing homework and she has all sorts of strategies she and we can try. Things will improve for a few weeks and then it's back to multiple worksheets and hours after school. The situation is causing a lot of stress for my kid and my family. DH and I got in a huge fight last night over it...mainly because DS was crying about the amount of work and wanting to just relax finally, I'm asking DS to work a little on catching up his writing assignment, and DH blowing up at both of us (he later apologized). DH emailed the teacher again last night and she wrote back with the same "he's only supposed to have 40 mins and has plenty of time to finish the work in class" line. My DS is an average student and a good kid. He will do the work if he can, but how much should be expected of a 9 y/o. I'm at the point of telling her we're done with it for the rest of the year.  [/quote]

Forty minutes isn't a lot. What other activities does he have going on? Does DS think life will get any easier?[/quote]

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