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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a secondary teacher in NYC and can echo a lot of this. I teach honors, gen Ed and ICT science classes. Last year my school was one in the district that piloted removing homework from the grading policy. Just removing it entirely.

This is a well performing school in a good nyc district. Parents want homework. My honors parents complain when there is not homework. I really have mixed opinions on HW overall, but believe it is ok especially in moderation, and students benefit from working on skills and reading at home.

Also, there is tons of homework at the competitive high schools these kids are trying to get into- so what does it say if we give them 0 homework for years before?

It’s all absurd. There is no accountability for students or parents; all on the teachers. I am expected to call parents when kids have missing assignments (!) even though I spend hours per week updating a digital gradebook that has EVERYTHING there. And I have 150 students.

This is why teachers want to leave [/quote]

The homework thing is utter madness. I have a 6th grader who is decent in math but I’ve discovered needs to do extra practice at home to lock in concepts. Ie “homework.” He cannot fully internalize the concepts in class because it goes to fast or too slow and skips over what he needs to learn. Homework is *literally the way* kids are supposed to review and solidify learning. [/quote]

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