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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, I find doing dishes quite boring.  However, I still have to wash them.  Sometimes, there are things in life you just have to do.  Kids benefit by learning that early.  That is a life skill--whether you want to believe it or not.[/quote]

I tell my son this all of the time when he says, "But I don't want to!"  I make a list of all of the things I don't want to do and then say that they need to be done.  Sometimes kids don't see the point of everything (and adults too).  Sometimes homework can be busywork but most of the time, it is to practice a skill in math or to develop fluency in reading.  I am a teacher and kids who don't do homework usually do poorly on tests and quizzes.  If I had a student who did well even without doing homework, great.  Homework counts for 15% of their grade so if they ace everything else, they will still get a B if they don't do any homework.  If they are okay with that, the decision is theirs.  But in the last 9 years of teaching at my school, I've only had one student who this would've applied to.  As a parent, I occasionally question my son's homework (but I don't do it aloud in front of him!).  I give homework at the beginning of the week so students can choose when to do it.  The math homework are skills from the week before so they could knock it all out in one night if they choose to.  They also need to read every night for 25-30 mins and do one book review every other week.  Their LA is a packet and it is a skill I teach that week (run on sentences, etc).  I don't ever give crosswords or other busywork like that for homework.[/quote]

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