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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe in the summer, but making a kid do 30 minutes of a workbook after sitting in school for 8 hours is abnormal.[/quote]

How is this any different from kids doing 30 (or more) minutes of homework assigned by the school?

DD (third grader) goes to a school with a no homework policy.  On days when she doesn't have too much going on after school, she does *something* academic, and that doesn't necessarily correlate in any way to what she's doing in school.  It could be an experiment, it could be collecting pinecones and seeing if they follow Fibonacci (or any other) series, it could be a book on problem solving.  We'll likely continue with it at home over the summer, on weeks where she has no summer camp (which is most weeks).  Heck, she might get a little more than 30 or 45 minutes of schoolwork daily, over the summer. When she was younger, she used to go to school year round, and while there were more fun activities than schoolwork, I found it really helpful when it came to retention of material she had studied during the school year.[/quote]

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