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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anecdotes and scores at DCI discussed above are consistent with what we have heard.  While I can agree with a philosophy about minimizing homework during elementary school years, I do believe homework is essential beginning in middle school.  We were shocked when current DCI MS students told us they did not have homework.  More rigor and tracking in MS would inevitably help raise IB scores in HS but we didn’t get the impression that this is a priority at DCI.  I think families have to go in with their eyes open just like at any of the other schools and think about which part(s) of their child’s education they are prioritizing and which part(s) they are capable of supplementing to fill in gaps.[/quote]

DCI parent here, and seriously wondering which teachers all these kids who have "no homework" have??  I believe kids are telling you this, but it is SO inconsistent with our experience with both kids, it's really puzzling.  My kid who is now in 8th grade, granted 6th grade was lockdown year, so can't say she had a ton of homework. But 7th grade she went back in person and she is a good student but was pretty stressed out with how much homework she had on a regular basis.  This year 8th grade for her is more manageable because she's learning how to manage her homework.

Our oldest definitely had homework all 3 yrs of middle school but it did also ramp up a lot more in 7th and 8th.  But he had it in 6th too.

So no idea who these kids with no homework, who their teachers are, but as I talk to other DCI parents I do not hear anyone saying their kid has no homework.[/quote] My 7th grader can do most of her homework during her hour-long commute to DCI from SE via public transportation. She doesn't seem to get more than around an hour of homework per weekday.  We enroll her in extra academics/tutoring on-line to bump up her homework. She gets maybe 15-minutes worth of homework in her language class, not nearly enough to really learn the language, so we supplement. We will be looking for a more rigorous HS experience.  [/quote]

I'm the PP you replied to, fair enough, I can understand that take. My daughter had way more language homework on most days, but she came from a feeder school so if your daughter is new to her language, we didn't have that experience at DCI.  If she came from years at a feeder school, what language is she learning?  But again, fair enough that the rigor that is at DCI isn't consistent enough.[/quote]

Language is tracked so I assume the higher performing kids in the higher language courses will have more rigor, higher expectations, and likely along with that more homework especially reading and writing [/quote]

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