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This is exactly what it looks like!  It's ridiculous, the ones that don't know what they are doing, and really need help, just bounce around.

[b]No child left behind, because if you go this slow there is no "behind". [/b] :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  <---This is exactly right.

To the person who stated the OP needed a private school, how about you get bent.

$2.39 billion Operating budget for a school system that can't provide books or a curriculum, but we who are unhappy should just send our kids to private.  How about we hold the school responsible for accomplishing their mission. [/quote]

I don't understand what you mean by "no curriculum". Here OP is, complaining about the curriculum. Is OP complaining about something that doesn't exist?[/quote]

[b]There is no curriculum it's a mish mosh of worksheets.  Ask your child's teacher to show you the binders or ask how much time they spend at the copier EVERY DAY.  My child has literally seent he teacher dump them straight from turn in into recycling.  Its not graded and completely demotivating.[/b]
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OMG!  I see this too.  I don't know that parents realize what their kids are doing.  Parents, you all need to spend some time volunteering in your kids' classrooms.  Offer to make some copies so you can see all the ridiculous busywork that they do at school.  It is very rarely graded.  Kids put it in a bin and unless it is labeled with a P/I/N, chances are, it is not going to be even looked at.

I started off with the idea that I should NOT be checking DD's homework.  I figured I should let the teacher check it.  Then, in 1st grade, we rarely got homework back, or if we did, it was much later than when the work was actually being done (so they had already moved on to something else).  Not much feedback - just a check if it was done adequately.  And, I also realized that our teacher doesn't actually even LOOK AT the homework.  She has an aide that does this.  Fair enough, when there are 27 kids in the class, I guess.

So, now I go over my kid's homework in detail.  I figure if they're going to assign it, and I want it to be useful, I need to review it myself.

Great for my kid, but how great is it for parents who don't have time to do this?  Pretty crappy.  I see these kids homework packets, and they just get sent home with a check on the front, and minimal corrections.  What's the point of the homework packets if the teacher doesn't even get to see them, and if the kids don't have them returned?[/quote]

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