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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher.  My kids did not/do not do homework in K-2.  That's changed some because my oldest is in a HGC and homework is necessary (and she enjoys it and gets something out of it).  But for the younger two, it depends on the assignments, and usually it is not done.  Math packets for 1st graders?  No.  Reading every night at every grade level?  Yes.

I'm required to give homework to my students, but in my interactions with parents, I do my best to make sure they understand what kind of "homework" is valuable and what isn't.  If homework time is a positive interaction between parent and child, then of course, it is valuable.  Parents can reinforce the message that the child's success is important to everybody and that they, the parents, are interested in knowing about and seeing for themselves what the child is learning to do.  But it has very little, if anything, to do with the actual work that's being done.  In my opinion, based on my experience and plenty of research, having your children do a worksheet by themselves after school or worse, nagging or arguing with a young child to finish a worksheet, has no value in the child's education or well-being.[/quote]

That's so nice to hear!  My child reads about 4 hours every day after school, but refuses to do the worksheets that are also sent home as homework.  I've tried bribing by offering either "allowance" or video-game time for doing the worksheets -- sometimes he'll take that offer, but he usually just shrugs and goes back to the book.  I'm not really inclined to get into some big power play about the worksheet.  So he does it about a third of the time, and I rarely bother to send in the sheet where I initial that he did it.  It seems to me like the homework doesn't get to be anything substantive or interesting until about 4th grade (except for the occasional diorama type project before then).[/quote]

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