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Cheese · 09-28-2006, 09:34 AM

It is a BIG problem these days. My daughter had at least an hour of homework a day in Grades 4, 5 & 6...now she is in Junior High Gr 7 and the teacher has informed us its 70 minutes AVERAGE per day. I actually printed this article and sent it to her. No comment back so far. The teacher went as far as to suggest that it will be 70 minutes in Gr 7, 80 in 8, 90 in 9 and so on. I laughed...literally.
We have our kids in swimming, art classes and sundry other things that expand their minds and bodies OUTSIDE of the education system. Not to mention family time and being a kid time. Once we get back from these there are days where the time before bed is limited to far less than what the teachers expect.
My daughters teacher suggested that homework is ONLY information that was not taught that day or had time for in that day. I suggested they needed to look at and revise their planning and be more realistic in what they expected children to accomplish from 8:30 to 3pm.
Fortunately our daughter is an exellent student who has little difficulty with comprehension and actually enjoys studying...most of the time. For that reason I dont get in her face about it and fully support her when time limits what she can and cant do.

My son...well......hes a different story...LOL

09-28-2006, 09:34 AM	#27
Cheese Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Exp:	It is a BIG problem these days. My daughter had at least an hour of homework a day in Grades 4, 5 & 6...now she is in Junior High Gr 7 and the teacher has informed us its 70 minutes AVERAGE per day. I actually printed this article and sent it to her. No comment back so far. The teacher went as far as to suggest that it will be 70 minutes in Gr 7, 80 in 8, 90 in 9 and so on. I laughed...literally. We have our kids in swimming, art classes and sundry other things that expand their minds and bodies OUTSIDE of the education system. Not to mention family time and being a kid time. Once we get back from these there are days where the time before bed is limited to far less than what the teachers expect. My daughters teacher suggested that homework is ONLY information that was not taught that day or had time for in that day. I suggested they needed to look at and revise their planning and be more realistic in what they expected children to accomplish from 8:30 to 3pm. Fortunately our daughter is an exellent student who has little difficulty with comprehension and actually enjoys studying...most of the time. For that reason I dont get in her face about it and fully support her when time limits what she can and cant do. My son...well......hes a different story...LOL Last edited by Cheese; 09-28-2006 at 09:37 AM.