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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poor teaching in public elementary school combined with elimination of intellectual or academic homework for children will definetely ensure your child has time to excell at video games and lacrosse.  Alas, MCPS should take note and roll out a new plan to close the achievement gap. [/quote]

And your qualifications to come to this conclusion are?

More work+more work+ more work does not always equal more success.  The quality and type of the work are ery important pieces of the equation.  Tired, burnt out kids don't do quality work. Have you never been in a situation whereyou realize that you are no longer being productive?  It is not normal for children to focus on intellectual and fine motor work for 8 hours a day.  Children need to run, climb, play, wander, daydream, imagine, build, tear down, and generally have time during they day when they are not being told what to do and how to do it.  [/quote]

My daughter is in 3rd grade.  She has snack/outdoor break and recess each day. She comes home to about an hour of homework each night. It will increase, as I've heard stories from other parents in the upper grades.  She's fine.  She is not over scheduled.  Once she's through with HW, she runs outside, hops on the playset, or rides her bike.

Summers are hers.  She's in camp maybe one or two weeks - for fun and not for childcare.

Here's the problem.  When kids are locked up all summer b/c parents have to work (I am lucky to teach and have summers off - truly lucky.) and when they're being driven from one activity to another DURING the school year, homework becomes a chore, as there's no balance.  Sadly, I can't change that. But I can defend HW when a kid has downtime during the week and during the summer.

So what's the answer?  abolish it b/c our society can't figure out priorities or continue to assign it and watch the gap grow wider and wider?  My children will have the advantage, sadly, over the many I teach.  And that doesn't make me feel good about what I do.  [/quote]

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