Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:47     Subject: No homework???
all kids need practice in spelling and math.

have you seen what the schools have been churning out lately?
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 17:42     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just moved into the county and was told by my elementary and middle schools that they don’t give ANY homework. Is that right?? Is it just by schools or is this FCPS wide?

How in the heck can students be prepared without any homework??


Its an equity issue. If you can't afford private school, then be prepared to acquire tutoring support down the road for subjects where you cant help them.


This is the unfortunate answer. Everything in FCPS is about equity. Your kid will be OK as long as you are prepared to supplement yourself or via tutors as they progress through FCPS.

Critical to get placed in AAP, it is more like what GenEd once was.

Oh sweetie, AAP is not what AAP once was. There is no difference between Gen Ed and AAP other than math.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 16:32     Subject: No homework???
^ and also, never supplemented.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 16:31     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Okay. I really need to block this form. My kid is heading to college. T25. White, blonde male. So no hooks. He went to a school most of you would never even consider. He had no homework except for reading until he hit Middle Sc

Believe it or not, it really doesn't matter in the end. I know it's so hard to see early on but I promise you it really doesn't matter just let your kid enjoy elementary school and learn and take in as much as he or she can.

I feel like the teachers and schools did a really great job in class and his free time after school was spent creating relationships making friends Sports volunteering reading extras.

Just relax. I promise... Your child will be okay.

And I'm sure someone will get on me and say what a stupid mom he has. She doesn't know grammar or capitalization or punctuation. What I do know is I'm not going back to fix the voice to text errors because I'm lazy which has nothing to do with anything in this thread

What does being blond have to do with anything you weirdo?


I was sure based on the people here that one would immediately say I had a URM kid who got by with no homework because DEI.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 16:25     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:The superintendent is requiring hw for all grades now.


And all courses. Ceramics must give “regular homework”. PE must give and grade “regular homework”. What defines regular has not been explained, but my school has taken it to mean a minimum of once per week or once per unit (if more than 3 units per quarter)
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 16:10     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just moved into the county and was told by my elementary and middle schools that they don’t give ANY homework. Is that right?? Is it just by schools or is this FCPS wide?

How in the heck can students be prepared without any homework??


Its an equity issue. If you can't afford private school, then be prepared to acquire tutoring support down the road for subjects where you cant help them.


This is the unfortunate answer. Everything in FCPS is about equity. Your kid will be OK as long as you are prepared to supplement yourself or via tutors as they progress through FCPS.

Critical to get placed in AAP, it is more like what GenEd once was.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 16:06     Subject: No homework???
The superintendent is requiring hw for all grades now.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:58     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:Okay. I really need to block this form. My kid is heading to college. T25. White, blonde male. So no hooks. He went to a school most of you would never even consider. He had no homework except for reading until he hit Middle Sc

Believe it or not, it really doesn't matter in the end. I know it's so hard to see early on but I promise you it really doesn't matter just let your kid enjoy elementary school and learn and take in as much as he or she can.

I feel like the teachers and schools did a really great job in class and his free time after school was spent creating relationships making friends Sports volunteering reading extras.

Just relax. I promise... Your child will be okay.

And I'm sure someone will get on me and say what a stupid mom he has. She doesn't know grammar or capitalization or punctuation. What I do know is I'm not going back to fix the voice to text errors because I'm lazy which has nothing to do with anything in this thread

What does being blond have to do with anything you weirdo?
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:58     Subject: No homework???
It depends on the school. We've been at two different FCPS elementary schools - the first switched to a no homework policy 5 years ago, the second had no problem with giving out homework (my kids had a few math worksheets a week and a few big group projects over the year that they worked on evenings and weekends). My oldest is starting 8th this year and they definitely give out homework in our FCPS middle school. A lot of it.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:52     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No homework, at least in elementary school, is in line with contemporary education research and best practices.


I substitute in FCPS and the general classes are full of kids that can’t do basic math. If these kids were given 5-10 minutes of math homework a night, the problem would be solved.

Even if we just had kids drilling each other with flash cards for 10 minutes it would help. Get rid of morning meeting and do that.


That’s a full-time teacher in the general Ed classroom who has been teaching for about 25 years, I can tell you that the kids who don’t know their math facts still would not do their homework.


I agree with you. But a few minutes a day did take my ok math kid to knocking it out of the park. She just needed a little reinforcement at home. We provided that because the school did not. We aren’t intense parents, but some math is literally just practicing a skill.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:52     Subject: No homework???
Homework isnt needed for a good education. But if you really want it, make your own or send your kid to private school. (I have done both of those in various situations with my kids). Making your own is very easy.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:39     Subject: No homework???
Okay. I really need to block this form. My kid is heading to college. T25. White, blonde male. So no hooks. He went to a school most of you would never even consider. He had no homework except for reading until he hit Middle Sc

Believe it or not, it really doesn't matter in the end. I know it's so hard to see early on but I promise you it really doesn't matter just let your kid enjoy elementary school and learn and take in as much as he or she can.

I feel like the teachers and schools did a really great job in class and his free time after school was spent creating relationships making friends Sports volunteering reading extras.

Just relax. I promise... Your child will be okay.

And I'm sure someone will get on me and say what a stupid mom he has. She doesn't know grammar or capitalization or punctuation. What I do know is I'm not going back to fix the voice to text errors because I'm lazy which has nothing to do with anything in this thread
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:34     Subject: Re:No homework???
Alfie Kohn. About as smart as the guy that came up with Standards based grading and Lucy Calkins with her everyone's a writer and writing lessons not needed pedagogy.

His latest blog arguing that academics shouldn't be evidence based. https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/evidence-based/
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:31     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:No homework is the consequence of the American society's collective decision to low-pay public school teachers. Preparing and grading homework, writing recommendation letters, among other tasks, take outside teacher contract hours. With the already abysmal compensation, what do we expect from our teachers?


It is not. it's that stupid Khan guy from Miami and Boston that grew up wealthy wrote all those books about the problems with homework and then sent his kids to schools that taught Latin.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2025 15:28     Subject: No homework???
Anonymous wrote:Ask the principal. Share your concerns. They listen to feedback from parents, and if enough parents say that "no homework" doesn't provide enough practice for students to master skills, then the policy will change.

No homework currently considered best practice in education pedagogy - so was Lucy Calkins a couple years ago. Best practices evolve.


LOL. No one cares about your opinion. Do not try this. The principal will hate you. Get to know other parents and if the people that rule the school care about this then maybe they'll add math homework. That's about it. Just go private if you care about homework. FCPS doesn't even care about homework in high school. It's a losing battle.