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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents never ever knew if I had homework, so of course they never checked my homework.

Then in 11th grade I started hanging out with two girls whose parents were from Korea. I realized their parents not only checked their homework they had the teachers edition of the math textbook as well as other books. They turned in every single problem correctly. My grade in math got better when I started checking my homework against theirs and doing corrections. They also went to a tutoring program where the teacher previewed the upcoming lessons so it wasn’t the first time they saw the new math material. I also loved going to their house to study or do group projects. Their moms would make us tea and give us snacks. If we stayed up until 2 am finishing a project their moms stayed up as well (they both worked as well so it was a big sacrifice). If we needed supplies they ran to get us more tape, markers, science materials, etc.

I have now emulated that with my own kids. I check 100% of their homework and make them do corrections. I have teacher editions ti check the answers quickly. It really does pay off. My kids are in high school and junior high now and are doing great. [/quote]

This is  us too.  This is how Indians teach their kids.  when we came to America and realized they teach here without textbooks, tests, checking homework, standards, classroom discipline etc - we were panic stricken. [/quote]

I was the one who posted about studying with friends whose parents are Korean. My family is Latino and kept deferring to the teachers. It is the same now with the teacher posting earlier not to check the homework. Latino families listen to the teachers and believe the teachers all know best. I was fortunate to realize there is another way, a better way. To be really involved in your kids education. My kids started Kumon at 4 and we were probably the only Latino family there that was there for enrichment not for remediating older students who were behind. I met so many Asian and Eastern European families who realize that relying on schools in the U.S. to exclusively educate your kids is a mistake.

I really learned so many study tips the last two years of high school by becoming really observant on what the best student did. There were a couple of students who were scary smart brilliant who just absorbed everything. I didn't get the sense their parents helped much. However, all the other top students seemed to have parents that were really involved and they were from Korea, Iran, and India (I went to high school in So. Cal.) There parents were not involved in PTA or other volunteer jobs but were so involved in their education.  I have no idea back then how they got the teacher's manuals but once I was able to check all my math homework and correct the missed problems, I became a top math student. It is pointless to do five lengthy problems wrong. It is so much better to do the first one, figure out what you are doing wrong, and keep working at it until you get it right. Then you move on to the next problem. So now you have done 5 problems correctly compared to making mistakes and errors on the whole assignment. The teachers who say they want to see the homework uncorrected are ridiculous. There isn't time in class to correct homework and then work with that students who missed problems or who did the problems incorrectly. Teachers have to move on to the next lesson or the pacing will be off.  So you end up getting behind trying to catch up.  [/quote]

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