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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I can only figure these are parents of elementary students, because once those kids hit middle school and homework is a huge part of grades in some classes, those kids are going to slam into a brick wall.

And mom and dad are going to wonder, gosh, why is junior is tanking? It will be because junior never learned to schedule and do his homework, never learned which work to do immediately and which can wait, never learned to study in any way that goes beyond re-reading worksheets.

Kids are not born knowing how to set priorities or organize themselves. Parents do have a role -- which many on here seem most willing to abdicate -- in teaching their children study skills, and in teaching their children to respect the assignments teachers give them, even if the kid (and parent) dislike the work involved.[/quote]

Here is how much homework I had in elementary school (K-6): a few worksheets in sixth grade, to prepare us for the idea of homework in junior high school. And yet somehow everybody seems to have more or less figured out the idea of homework in seventh grade!

This is anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but it does suggest that kids can manage homework in middle school without having had homework in elementary school.[/quote]

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