Anonymous wrote:Homework is widely accepted as an inequitable practice today. First of all, there is the digital divide. Many assignments require a computer and internet access, which are not equally available to all students. This is known as the "homework gap," and it forces some students to use libraries or find public Wi-Fi, which is not always feasible.

Second, there’s the gap in parental and guardian support: Students from families with more flexible work schedules or higher education levels may receive more help from parents with homework, while students with working parents, one or more parents involved with correctional institutions, or single parents, may have less support or more pressure to handle domestic duties.

Furthermore, there’s the stable environment gap. Some students may not have a quiet or stable home environment conducive to focusing on homework, whereas others (particularly those benefiting from unearned privilege) may have dedicated spaces for study.

You either don't have a middle/high schooler or you don't have a child in FCPS. Homework is 10% of the kids' grade in each class. A lot of teachers do adhere to this philosophy, they just say in class work counts as homework so there isn't homework, but some do actually give homework.

Anonymous wrote:Homework is widely accepted as an inequitable practice today. First of all, there is the digital divide. Many assignments require a computer and internet access, which are not equally available to all students. This is known as the "homework gap," and it forces some students to use libraries or find public Wi-Fi, which is not always feasible.

Second, there’s the gap in parental and guardian support: Students from families with more flexible work schedules or higher education levels may receive more help from parents with homework, while students with working parents, one or more parents involved with correctional institutions, or single parents, may have less support or more pressure to handle domestic duties.

Furthermore, there’s the stable environment gap. Some students may not have a quiet or stable home environment conducive to focusing on homework, whereas others (particularly those benefiting from unearned privilege) may have dedicated spaces for study.

The answer is to not give homework so no one learns the material properly? Good call. (Eye roll)

This has long been an issue. Schools are not going to fix the root cause of those issues. Telling kids who do have support that they should not be practicing what they learned at school so they can master it to not do that so that the kids who have crappy home lives can have classmates struggling closer to the way they are is not a good answer.

Anonymous wrote:Homework is widely accepted as an inequitable practice today. First of all, there is the digital divide. Many assignments require a computer and internet access, which are not equally available to all students. This is known as the "homework gap," and it forces some students to use libraries or find public Wi-Fi, which is not always feasible.

Second, there’s the gap in parental and guardian support: Students from families with more flexible work schedules or higher education levels may receive more help from parents with homework, while students with working parents, one or more parents involved with correctional institutions, or single parents, may have less support or more pressure to handle domestic duties.

Furthermore, there’s the stable environment gap. Some students may not have a quiet or stable home environment conducive to focusing on homework, whereas others (particularly those benefiting from unearned privilege) may have dedicated spaces for study.

This has always been the case.

Homework is widely accepted as an inequitable practice today. First of all, there is the digital divide. Many assignments require a computer and internet access, which are not equally available to all students. This is known as the "homework gap," and it forces some students to use libraries or find public Wi-Fi, which is not always feasible.

Second, there’s the gap in parental and guardian support: Students from families with more flexible work schedules or higher education levels may receive more help from parents with homework, while students with working parents, one or more parents involved with correctional institutions, or single parents, may have less support or more pressure to handle domestic duties.

Furthermore, there’s the stable environment gap. Some students may not have a quiet or stable home environment conducive to focusing on homework, whereas others (particularly those benefiting from unearned privilege) may have dedicated spaces for study.

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Anonymous wrote:I see this is an older thread. This school year 25/26 all grade levels have mandatory homework. In middle school it does count as part of their grade and there is A LOT of it.
We came from a "no homework" elementary school and this transition is HARD.

Ask your child what they are doing during class and advisory. The kids who are bringing home homework tend to be kids with anxiety, learning issues, or ADHD and need more time to process and work OR they are goofing off in class and advisory. It tends to be one or the two. Most teachers leave time for kids to do homework in class so that the kids can ask questions and get help.

DS rarely brings home homework, he is in the AAP program with solid As. We ask him to spend 30 minutes reviewing notes in classes that are not his preferred classes to help him establish the habit of studying at home since we know he will need to do that in HS. Most of his friends don’t bring home homework. His friends with IEPs always have homework and it takes them forever to do it, not because it is hard but because they are easy to distract and get frustrated easily.

No. This varies greatly by the school. Some schools give projects and homeworks all the time.

My kid finishes his work, his friends don’t. They are at the same school with the same assignments. He has homework, I can see it all in SIS. He is able to get his done at school 99% of the time. There is plenty of assigned homework.

Some kids are able to complete it at school. Some try and struggle so they bring it home. Some are goofing off and bring it all home. That is the way of homework.

Some teachers and/or schools do it this way (they give classwork for that 10% homework grade like you are describing, and kids who don't finish it in class can finish it at home) while others give homework but do not provide in class time to do it. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand. Every teacher and every school is different. This is absolutely not standardized across FCPS - I have a kid at one middle school and friends who have kids at other FCPS middle schools and our kids have all had different experiences with classwork vs homework vs in class group projects vs out of class group projects etc.

If it was classwork then other kids wouldn’t be taking it home as homework. I am not sure why you have a hard time understanding this. Homework is posted in schoology so kids can see it in class. Teachers are not writing assignments on the blackboard for kids to copy down at the end of class. They are posting it in schoology and they are not doing it during class.

Toss is kids finishing work in a different class and working on homework for another class because they have time and advisory and there are kids getting everything done at school. My kid has class projects, e discusses them with us, and gets his part done at school and works with classmates to finish what they need to do in advisory. He is taking two HS classes in MS. He has friends who bring home homework and others who finish in school like he does.

While I know different Teachers assign different work, I promise you that there are kids in your kids class who are finishing at school.

You wrote a bunch of rubbish. Homework is not consistently posted on Schoology at our schools. It’s remarkable, but some teachers still provide items in only paper form. Crazy lady is not omnipotent.

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn’t even have a period called ‘advisory’. They sometimes have a period where the kids are taught handed-down extra topics, such as social-emotional learning. But, this seminar class doesn’t happen on ‘anchor’ days. So, the crazy lady on here with the ‘perfect’ child is ignorant of the various schools and their varied ways. Some schools don’t even follow a block schedule all five days of the week. There is no way that the crazy lady knows everyone’s schedule and circumstances across FCPS.

I'm not the crazy lady, but I wasn't aware that not everyone follows a block schedule. I do find it pretty wild that they are not consistent with this across all FCPS schools.

Our school doesn’t even have a period called ‘advisory’. They sometimes have a period where the kids are taught handed-down extra topics, such as social-emotional learning. But, this seminar class doesn’t happen on ‘anchor’ days. So, the crazy lady on here with the ‘perfect’ child is ignorant of the various schools and their varied ways. Some schools don’t even follow a block schedule all five days of the week. There is no way that the crazy lady knows everyone’s schedule and circumstances across FCPS.

This one crazy lady is missing that sometimes at the end of a period on a Friday morning of a day that kids don't have advisory, a teacher assigns something and says "this is due Tuesday before class starts." And yes, maybe PP's perfect little child will save it until Monday to do in his advisory period and because he's so smart and fast and doesn't have any friends or outside interests, he just 100% knows that he'll be able to get it done at the very last minute Monday afternoon. Meanwhile, a different child in his class is like "Hm, I don't know what's going to happen on Monday, maybe another teacher will assign something that I want to do during advisory period that day or maybe I'll want to go work on my art project or go to the library during advisory, so I'll just do this on Saturday afternoon at home so that I can turn it in early and not have to worry about it on Monday."

And tada! Another perfect child who has no processing disorders or learning disabilities or ADHD and maybe even doesn't have any friends like OP's child has....homework!!

I can't believe I just spent a couple minutes of my time having to explain this to her though. What a freak.

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Anonymous wrote:I see this is an older thread. This school year 25/26 all grade levels have mandatory homework. In middle school it does count as part of their grade and there is A LOT of it.
We came from a "no homework" elementary school and this transition is HARD.

Ask your child what they are doing during class and advisory. The kids who are bringing home homework tend to be kids with anxiety, learning issues, or ADHD and need more time to process and work OR they are goofing off in class and advisory. It tends to be one or the two. Most teachers leave time for kids to do homework in class so that the kids can ask questions and get help.

DS rarely brings home homework, he is in the AAP program with solid As. We ask him to spend 30 minutes reviewing notes in classes that are not his preferred classes to help him establish the habit of studying at home since we know he will need to do that in HS. Most of his friends don’t bring home homework. His friends with IEPs always have homework and it takes them forever to do it, not because it is hard but because they are easy to distract and get frustrated easily.

No. This varies greatly by the school. Some schools give projects and homeworks all the time.

My kid finishes his work, his friends don’t. They are at the same school with the same assignments. He has homework, I can see it all in SIS. He is able to get his done at school 99% of the time. There is plenty of assigned homework.

Some kids are able to complete it at school. Some try and struggle so they bring it home. Some are goofing off and bring it all home. That is the way of homework.

Some teachers and/or schools do it this way (they give classwork for that 10% homework grade like you are describing, and kids who don't finish it in class can finish it at home) while others give homework but do not provide in class time to do it. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand. Every teacher and every school is different. This is absolutely not standardized across FCPS - I have a kid at one middle school and friends who have kids at other FCPS middle schools and our kids have all had different experiences with classwork vs homework vs in class group projects vs out of class group projects etc.

If it was classwork then other kids wouldn’t be taking it home as homework. I am not sure why you have a hard time understanding this. Homework is posted in schoology so kids can see it in class. Teachers are not writing assignments on the blackboard for kids to copy down at the end of class. They are posting it in schoology and they are not doing it during class.

Toss is kids finishing work in a different class and working on homework for another class because they have time and advisory and there are kids getting everything done at school. My kid has class projects, e discusses them with us, and gets his part done at school and works with classmates to finish what they need to do in advisory. He is taking two HS classes in MS. He has friends who bring home homework and others who finish in school like he does.

While I know different Teachers assign different work, I promise you that there are kids in your kids class who are finishing at school.

This just shows your total ignorance. Not everyone can finish classwork in class, so teachers let students take it home to finish.

No, I am very much aware of that. I even listed reasons why kids don’t finish their work in class. That is not really homework, that is classwork they are taking home to finish. In MS, some of those kids have that plus homework.

Kids are all over the place in their abilities. Smart kids who need more time to process and complete work are taking home classwork and have their homework and it takes them a long time. Kids who don’t have processing issues and the like, can finish their classwork and, some of them, their homework in class or advisory. The kids who don’t have learning issues and processing issues who are bringing home hours of work are probably using their down time in class to socialize or they might have processing issues that have gone undiagnosed until now because of the ramp up in expectations.

I don't know why you insist that the only children who can't finish their work at school are those with processing disorders, ADHD, or OMG want to take a minute to talk to their friends at school. What a bizarre take on things. Every child has their own pace of doing things. The smartest kid in the world who does not have any learning disabilities, doesn't have ADHD, isn't spending time talking to their friends can STILL take a long time to do their homework. Not everyone works at the same pace as your kid. You are SUPER WEIRD lady. You must be on the spectrum.



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Anonymous wrote:I see this is an older thread. This school year 25/26 all grade levels have mandatory homework. In middle school it does count as part of their grade and there is A LOT of it.
We came from a "no homework" elementary school and this transition is HARD.

Ask your child what they are doing during class and advisory. The kids who are bringing home homework tend to be kids with anxiety, learning issues, or ADHD and need more time to process and work OR they are goofing off in class and advisory. It tends to be one or the two. Most teachers leave time for kids to do homework in class so that the kids can ask questions and get help.

DS rarely brings home homework, he is in the AAP program with solid As. We ask him to spend 30 minutes reviewing notes in classes that are not his preferred classes to help him establish the habit of studying at home since we know he will need to do that in HS. Most of his friends don’t bring home homework. His friends with IEPs always have homework and it takes them forever to do it, not because it is hard but because they are easy to distract and get frustrated easily.

No. This varies greatly by the school. Some schools give projects and homeworks all the time.

My kid finishes his work, his friends don’t. They are at the same school with the same assignments. He has homework, I can see it all in SIS. He is able to get his done at school 99% of the time. There is plenty of assigned homework.

Some kids are able to complete it at school. Some try and struggle so they bring it home. Some are goofing off and bring it all home. That is the way of homework.

Some teachers and/or schools do it this way (they give classwork for that 10% homework grade like you are describing, and kids who don't finish it in class can finish it at home) while others give homework but do not provide in class time to do it. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand. Every teacher and every school is different. This is absolutely not standardized across FCPS - I have a kid at one middle school and friends who have kids at other FCPS middle schools and our kids have all had different experiences with classwork vs homework vs in class group projects vs out of class group projects etc.

If it was classwork then other kids wouldn’t be taking it home as homework. I am not sure why you have a hard time understanding this. Homework is posted in schoology so kids can see it in class. Teachers are not writing assignments on the blackboard for kids to copy down at the end of class. They are posting it in schoology and they are not doing it during class.

Toss is kids finishing work in a different class and working on homework for another class because they have time and advisory and there are kids getting everything done at school. My kid has class projects, e discusses them with us, and gets his part done at school and works with classmates to finish what they need to do in advisory. He is taking two HS classes in MS. He has friends who bring home homework and others who finish in school like he does.

While I know different Teachers assign different work, I promise you that there are kids in your kids class who are finishing at school.

Please just stop. Multiple people have told you that every teacher and every school does things differently and you are just going on and on about your child's specific situation not understanding that our children are not all taking the same classes as him and not in the same school as him. Kudos to you for having such a brilliant child though. Great job, momma! That's what you were looking for, right? Your child is awesome, and so are you!!!