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[quote=Anonymous]Kids are in school here much longer than in Europe for example. That 5 minutes of homework should fit inside the school day in grades up to 1.
Worksheet packages teach them how to draw lines from one character to another and they do it in pre-school, pre-k, and K. So tired of those worksheets, they teach nothing after awhile.
I feel like all that homework, worksheets and learning of ABC's starts very early here. Great start (or not) and then just slows down by middle school when kids fall behind their European peers.
My friend's child in pre-school was sent home with Venn diagram few years ago which she did for him (Apple tree CH). Did the teachers not know what they printed out or did they want the kid to color the circles?
I sent my child back to school with about 50% worksheets done that he did at school. Didn't spend much family time on them. He was in aftercare til 6 so we didn't really have any free time left at night.
 He is in 3rd grade and it's only now that I think he needs to start taking homework seriously and not just do it, but do it well. 
We have done what seems right for our family and not strictly what the teacher send home up to now. They haven't kicked us out of the school yet. Now that he is a big boy (9), I dare to push him more and expect more from him. He had his fun and a lot of it from pre-s to 2nd grade.
For each their own.
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