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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What I hear you saying is that you care more about your kid learning to "respect authority" than you do about the quality of his education or, more importantly, your time as a family. The premise here is that too much homework a) does not actually help kids learn; and b) interferes with family life by taking away our already limited time to do important things. We anti-busywork moms are not saying that our kids should be lazy or openly disrespectful to teachers - we are overseeing the quality of our kids educations. It is bizarre to me that you would just unthinkingly accept anything just because a teacher assigned it? [/quote]

NP here. I'm unsure why you think you're a good judge of the worthiness of homework and what constitutes busywork. Just because you went to school doesn't make you an expert on education and learning. So while you're being so insulting to parents who respect the expertise of the teachers in charge of schooling our children, you look a little silly when your only arguments are ones about things you know nothing about (whether or not homework helps kids learn) or ones that concentrate on your own preferences[b] (interfering with family time to do unspecified but certainly more important things than learning).[/b]

Hey, do what you want, but please divest yourself of the notion you're doing something good by 'overseeing the quality' of education. I doubt you have a single qualification to evaluate the quality of anyone's education.[/quote]
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Again, you think that learning always occurs with homework and no learning occurs during family time. I need no other evidence or qualifications to know that you do not have a quality education.[/b]

Great post, 13:41!  We have these sorts of experiences and treasure them.  For another interesting discussion topic, look for "Shark vs Octopus" on YouTube and ask your kids if they think the shark or octopus will win.[/quote]

And you think not learning occurs with homework.  I believe homework, when assigned is necessary regardless how I feel about it...and believe that learning can be through a combination of homework and other experiences.  [/quote]

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