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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher and a mom of two. I teach high school and am also annoyed with the elementary homework that comes home. Last year I stopped helping my 2nd grader. Try what he can for a little while I was making dinner and that's it.  If he didn't get to all of it or did it completely wrong we sent it back anyway. I never heard a thing. I believe homework is meaningless at such a young age. [/quote]

I do the same. I'm not doing anyone any favors by working with child to make sure the homework is correct when[b] the teacher needs to know that in fact child didn't understand it well enough to do it independently.[/quote][/b]

This. This is very important. I had my son do his book report (2nd grade) by himself. I felt it was important for me to tell the teacher that I was letting him do it completely on his own. She said good and that she wouldn't tell the other parents that she wanted them to let the kids do it themselves. I think that it should be an automatic that kids try to do it on their own. That's how you learn. [/quote]

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