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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forget AP Classes, those are college level and expected to have a lot of work. Why is my freshman in History honors drowning in SO MUCH homework? Every weekday evening and most of the weekend is spent ONLY on finishing up History assignments. And no, the teacher does not give any time in class to work on hw. Kid manages to finish all the other classes hw during Study Hall and comes home and does only history work every day. I have a suspicion that the history teacher is deliberately overloading the hw so that the kids will drop down to lower level. The same teacher is teaching AP World also and I suspect they are trying to scare away the kids from AP World with too much work. Thankfully, the other teachers are giving normal hw.[/quote]

+1 omg bless you. My poor kid is in the same boat. We have no idea why this teacher is assigning gobs of work. It is absolutely insane. My son is also spending hours on it. The sad part is the work is only for completion. The teacher doesn’t teach - just assigns reading (they read it outloud in class old school round robin style) and then they are given these ridiculous assignments that keep them busy the rest of the period. They cannot ever possibly be finished with them.[/quote]

[b]The teacher is teaching the kids how to study.[/b]

If your kid doesn't want to study and learn, then just scribble through the work and don't waste time making it correct. [/quote]

I don’t agree that simply reading a text outloud in class and assigning work after that is teaching my child “how to study.” If there was a lecture or discussion, where my child had to take take notes, and then study said notes, that might be “teaching him how to study.” But assigning copious amounts of busy work with zero discussion is not it.[/quote]

Is it possible that your kid is not relaying accurate information about what they are doing in class?[/quote]

No. He is a straight A student and extremely truthful.[/quote]

Also, I can see they don’t have any notes taken from lectures.[/quote]

[b]I guess your kid is lazy,[/b] or notes aren't important.

My kid learned the incredibly complex skill of note taking in middle school [/quote]

Not at all, more like the teacher is lazy. Having kids read outloud the text during class time to kill time and then simply assigning independent work with no discussion? That’s the definition of lazy teaching. [/quote]

What school is this?

It does not sound like your kid is telling you an accurate story.

Whenever my kid tells me something so outlandish, I ask them to explain it to me slowly, then type it word for word in the body of an email.

I preface the body with "Dear Teacher.  My kid informed me that this is occuring in your class.

(Insert exact outlandish complaint from my kid)

Can you please fill in any holes that might be missing from my kid's version of events?"

I then read the entire email back to my kid and ask them if I can hit send.

Nearly every time, after hearing me read their complaint out loud back to them, combined with the threat of me sending the email to the teacher as written, my kids corrects the original complaint to something that makes a heck of a lot more sense and which often switches the fault from the teacher to my kid.[/quote]

I am not going to share my complaints on this teacher’s teaching style with the actual teacher. This way of teaching history, believe it or not, is actually very common among teachers who rely heavily on the textbook. It’s one of the reasons many programs that teach teachers how to teach wanted to get away from using textbooks. Teachers who use the textbook often will default to easy lessons such as reading outloud and assigning end of chapter questions. They don’t have to do any work to actually prepare a lesson.[/quote]

This does not sound even a little bit like any FCPS AP class in all our years in the district.  My kids have so far taken over 2 dozen AP classes and counting between them.  I am not buying it.[/quote]

This is in reference to the freshman honors class, not the AP class the OP was talking about. Keep up.[/quote]

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