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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, All kids are not the same.  Maybe the homework is too much for your 5 year old? Get an IEP for her. [/quote]

An IEP, really, you idiot? IEPs are for children with disabilities. Not for children to cope with unrealistic expectations. [/quote]
But it's not an unrealistic expectation if all the other kids in class accomplish the task. You have to ask yourself why your child can't.[/quote]

I doubt all the other kids are doing it without issue. Unless we define normal childhood as a disability, being overly stressed by developmentally inappropriate expectations is not a disability. [/quote]
But the majority must, [b]or parents would complain, and it would get to an administrative level, and the work would stop[/b]. But they still have homework, so many must not complain, so we have to assume they are doing the work without issue.[/quote]

No, we don't.  My co-worker's kid had homework in kindergarten, and it was way more than a five-minute worksheet.  A lot of parents want homework because they think it equates to academic rigor, and they don't know it's developmentally inappropriate and maybe even harmful.  And a lot of parents just suck it up and do it and don't complain, or they find a workaround with the teacher, or they do complain but it does not, in fact, stop.  A lot of parents I know complain about homework, and how the expectations for little kids are unrealistic and stressful.  Everyone says that K is like first grade used to be.

Also, "working with your kid at home" is not the same as "making your kid do stupid homework."  There are much better ways to do enrichment--the most basic is to read to your kid and have them read to you every day.  [/quote]

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