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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They got rid of homework because of equity. Not everyone has a stable home situation and some need to care for younger siblings or elderly relatives.  So nothing assigned out of school, and in fact we are forfeiting instruction time for study time, because they can’t study at home either.

Equity is a real problem.  This is not the way to solve it.

No homework in 8th grade? Maybe not even high school? College will be crushing [/quote]

+1.

I have a 10th grader and a current APS MS 8th grader, both straight As the entire way through and never saw them research/write papers or even study.  They do score high on assessments and SOLs.  I assumed every kid in MS gets all As and now with being allowed to make constant corrections and take retakes there is no reason why they all don’t have straight As.

We do private HS and it’s been night and day.  My kid still gets As, but the amount of work required for it, the expectations and the rigor is so much greater.  It’s worth every penny we spend.  And the teachers at his school are phenomenal.  He isn’t bored like MS.  He is very engaged and self-motivated because it’s not someone just regurgitating from a text.[/quote]

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