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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't give homework because the students don't do it.  Then they get zeros on things and it lowers their grade.  Then, I have to make sure that I contact home.  Why waste time on something that students won't do.[/quote]

I’m not sure what you reach.  I guess if I had my pick, for 7th and 8th graders I would like regular math homework, maybe weekly science homework that is due on a standardized day but can be turned in either in paper or online (so kids don’t neeed to worry about losing the paper) and for humanities, large projects due maybe twice a quarter.  I think the High program has something like that.  That would probably be my ideal.  
I also would really like it to be the norm that English teachers assign at least two essays per quarter, and then they can have a movie week or independent work or something to allow the teachers time to grade the essays and provide substantive feedback.  Eg read a Shakespeare play, have class discussions, have an essay assigned, then the kids can watch the collected works of Kenneth Branagh foot a week while the teacher provides comments on the essays.  [/quote]

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