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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school is it, op?

Sorry I can’t share the school and teacher name. I do wish the teacher would see this and realize how hard it’s been on the students.

Just share the school name.

What does the school matter?

others can commiserate or agree or share their tactics on how they are handling it

Some elementary schools are known for a large workload. I wonder if it’s the one we have. Where is your school?

For one week, sit with your child while they do the homework. Log the start and stop times for each assignment, along with when it was assigned and the due date. Then communicate with the teacher.

I am really careful about how much I assign. I have repeatedly told parents and kids to reach out to me if the homework load feels unreasonable. It’s rare but when someone does, I ask the child and parent to do the above together so we can figure out what’s happening. Almost without fail, I get a “never mind” after a few days. It’s one of the following:

1) Kid is “multi-tasking” with a device— playing a game, scrolling videos, texting, etc. “I’m doing homework” is the excuse they use to have a screen out. One tab is an assignment or something that looks like one, and in another tab (or another nearby device) they have something else going on. Or the TV is on.

2) Kid is screwing around all day with friends and would rather do the work at home where there’s no buddies AND it gets them sympathy from mom and dad about their mean teacher.

3) Kid is an extreme perfectionist who takes a ten-minute assignment and turns it into a two -hour assignment. I will absolutely work closely with these kids and parents if I know it’s an issue. Usually I end up doing a lot of clarification on requirements because the child will insist I’m asking for way more than I actually am. (And the child believes it.)

4) Kid is putting off every thing possible to the last minute, so there winds up being nights that everything piles up and there is legit 4 hours of work… for assignments they’ve had weeks to do and plenty of time in class for.

5) Kid is severely overscheduled with 3+ hours a day of activities. “My kid is up until 11 PM with homework” is actually “after my kid gets home from math competition class/five-day-a-week dance rehearsal/hockey practice/etc. it’s 9:00pm then they have to eat and they’re exhausted, so 20 minutes of homework takes 90.” Sometimes parents have never actually added up all of that extracurricular time and once they do, they either pull back on it, or just accept the hit to the kid’s school work.

6) Parent moved heaven and earth, got private testing, appealed and re-appealed and now their kid is in AAP, and the child is drowning because it turns out the first three committee decisions were correct and the child was just fine in Gen Ed. This one sucks for everyone involved.

There ARE teachers with insane homework loads, though. Absolutely! And if you’ve got one of those, keeping the log is going to he very eye-opening for everyone, possible including the teacher.

Anonymous wrote:DC 5th grader at Fcps has average 4-5 hours of homework daily. Those are not classwork, DC is a very fast kid and would use class time to do some homework, I asked if DC needs help for anything not understand in class and the answer was no. The kids, after all entire school day of laptop usage, have to continue another 4-5 hours laptop homework, there’s no down time and even result in a late bedtime. Why? There have been lot of parents from past few years complain about the same thing, but it never changed, and the teacher would tell students not to complain to their parents during class. If I complain to principal, what will the teacher treat my DC the rest of the school year? I don’t know what I can do to help DC escape from this heavy homework load. Sigh.

Something is VERY WRONG there OP.

Kids in 5th grade shouldn't even have any homework. Even college kids don't have that much! Is the kid simply dottling?

Also, if the teacher isn’t grading everything and giving it back in a timely manner (1-2 days) than assigning more work is poor practice.

In 5th grade your child’s daily schedule is at most Math Langauge Arts Science Social Studies. If they get one homework assignment per class then that is 4 assignments a day. What are the other 3 assignments.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school is it, op?

Sorry I can’t share the school and teacher name. I do wish the teacher would see this and realize how hard it’s been on the students.

Just share the school name.

What does the school matter?

My son with ADHD went to a pretty touch Catholic school and the max homework he had was 3 hrs per night. Most nights were 2-2 and a half.

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Anonymous wrote:Explain how it’s possible to do 4-5 hours of homework when school gets out at 4 pm? Please write out the schedule with time blocks for this and when dinner and bedtime were.

DC gets home at 4pm, go directly to start homework, always eats supper while doing homework, if there’s sport then it’s extra 1.5-2 hours, shower takes 10 minutes, bed time is around 10:30-11pm.

He eats dinner while doing homework? How is that possible? What time is “sport”?

I want time blocks like:

4-5 pm homework
5-6 pm homework
6-7 pm dinner

Based on what you said, with sports being 2 hours, I still don’t see how homework is 5 hours.

You’re obviously exaggerating the exact time.

Now, ask yourself some questions. Does your son have access to a phone or iPad while doing homework? Do you check in on him periodically to make sure he’s on track? Is he getting distracted? Is the material too difficult?

The only kids with that much homework, or close to that amount, were not completing work in class. Talk to the teacher. If there is that much homework then stop doing it at 30 minutes and let the teacher know why you stopped.

I’m struggling to believe this. My kids are now older but no way did they have anything close to 4-5 hours of homework in 5th grade. There’s some sort of disconnect happening or OP is trolling. If this is happening I cannot imagine a universe in which multiple parents weren’t freaking out and knocking down the principals door.

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Anonymous wrote:What school is it, op?

Sorry I can’t share the school and teacher name. I do wish the teacher would see this and realize how hard it’s been on the students.

Why don’t you communicate your questions and concerns to the teacher?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What school is it, op?

Sorry I can’t share the school and teacher name. I do wish the teacher would see this and realize how hard it’s been on the students.

Just share the school name.

The teacher certainly isn't grading 4hrs worth of work from every kid every day.

So help your kid "complete" the homework with filler content to satisfy the checker

Let your kid just not do his homework and see what happens. It’s elementary school - the grades do not go on their permanent transcript.

Is this AAP?