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[quote=Anonymous]This kind of thinking is what I hate about N. Va: Kids need to do HW in K to be prepared for 1st grade to be prepared for 2nd grade to be prepared .... for HS and College.

HW has no proven benefit at young ages. None.

If you are in the unfortunate position as a parent of going to a school where they give lots of ES HW, and your kid is one of those who hates HW, you have two bad choices: 1) go along with it and put a happy face on it so the kid learns to respect authority but grows to hate learning, 2) refuse to play the game and be THAT PARENT and deal with the consequences, plus have to navigate with your kid why they should obey in general but also that yes reading logs are stupid.

We were fortunate that a lot of parents at our school actually got together and lobbied and started an evidence-based school wide conversation about this, so now our ES is low HW and it's so much better. I think that's the best approach.

But overall, all you people worried that our kids will grow up to be hoodlums because we don't insist they do busy work at the age of 6 that actively harms their love of learning ... well, as I said, that's the downside to living here. People need to relax.[/quote]

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