In 4th grade, homework was one sheet of (3-8) math problems, each of four nights Mon-Thu. Plus "do X amount of reading a week", which... yeah.
In 5th grade, it's just that so far, but I hear that there's more.
So far, it's not been a pain to get the student in question to do this stuff.
There have also been bigger projects that need to be done at home: historical personality poster, choose a planet and model it, etc. But that feels different from "homework."
We've been lucky so far in that whether it's the teachers or the school policy (unclear?), there's a sense from them that homework is not CRITICAL, and if it's spoiling family life on some night due to yelling, coercion, crying, etc., it's not worth it. The load is also light, so that tends to make it NOT be a big confrontation. Maybe it is just the school.
Me, I didn't do a lick of homework when I was a kid. And while there's no correlation between homework and achievement, I can tell you with dead certainty that there is sometimes a perfect, exact, linear correlation between lack-of-homework and lack-of-passing-grades. Or, I suppose sometimes, lack-of-good-grades. And it is those very grades that then can affect your future choices and options.
Also let me say that there's something truly miserable and humiliating about failing freshman english, repeatedly, while obviously being far above the level of the class material.
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Date: 2013-09-20 12:28 pm (UTC)In 5th grade, it's just that so far, but I hear that there's more.
So far, it's not been a pain to get the student in question to do this stuff.
There have also been bigger projects that need to be done at home: historical personality poster, choose a planet and model it, etc. But that feels different from "homework."
We've been lucky so far in that whether it's the teachers or the school policy (unclear?), there's a sense from them that homework is not CRITICAL, and if it's spoiling family life on some night due to yelling, coercion, crying, etc., it's not worth it. The load is also light, so that tends to make it NOT be a big confrontation. Maybe it is just the school.
Me, I didn't do a lick of homework when I was a kid. And while there's no correlation between homework and achievement, I can tell you with dead certainty that there is sometimes a perfect, exact, linear correlation between lack-of-homework and lack-of-passing-grades. Or, I suppose sometimes, lack-of-good-grades. And it is those very grades that then can affect your future choices and options.
Also let me say that there's something truly miserable and humiliating about failing freshman english, repeatedly, while obviously being far above the level of the class material.
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