Reply to Why are parents now expected to help with all their kids' homework?

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Why are parents now expected to help with all their kids' homework?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here again.  I help my kids for 2-3 hours each night (after a 10 hour workday).  1 hour would be acceptable.

We all do it and don't like it, but accept it.  What if parents rallied together at school district meetings and said "this is unacceptable.  Find a way to teach our kids better."

As several of you posted, they don't do drills anymore.  They don't take time reviewing homework.  They don't focus enough on the core skills- they fill the day with nonsense.  [b]Our school year is too short compared to the rest of the world (thanks teachers' unions) [/b]We have to supplement all summer long. [/quote]

I'm a teacher and I have seen a lot of blame placed on unions before but this is new.  I'm interested in how it is the fault of the unions that our school year isn't longer.  To make it longer, they would need to pay to put a/c in all of the schools.  Then they would need to come up with more money to pay teachers to work the additional days.  Hmmm.  Could it be that this is simply too expensive?  Parents complain about paying for school supplies for goodness' sake.  I doubt they would want their taxes hiked up a lot more for more instructional days.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics