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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - do these schools assign homework? One downside of our current school is no homework/accountability.[/quote]

At Fox Mill it depends. DS is in JI and had homework in first and second (reading and writing, a bit of math, and then memorizing the hiragana and katakana for Japanese). It wasn't particularly onerous for our child. I will say that the Japanese practice is the main reason why kids end up transferring to the Gen Ed class.

Third grade was distance learning so I have no clue what a normal year looks like.

Fourth grade has a social studies assignment pretty much every week, some ST Math, and reading. Kids also brought home any work they did not complete in class to complete at home so the amount of work depended on the kid. The reading was on Lexia and they had a number of minutes they were supposed to do, 45 a week, and the Teacher sent home a certificate at the end of the week telling parents how many minutes their child completed. I hated the ST Math, mainly because the graphics are so slow that it took far longer then it should have to complete. I liked the Lexia. It introduced a literary concept, then read a short story with that concept, and then the child answered questions focused on the concept. I was actually impressed with the program.

Fifth grade has not had much homework. It sounds like it is all work that kids don't complete at school and that has not affected DS. He has had a few writing assignments that he choose to work on a bit more at home and that we gave some feedback on, mainly reminders to capitalize Proper Nouns and the like. So it is very much kid dependent.

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