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School seems to have changed a lot since I was in school. My kid is in grade 3 and gets way more homework than I ever had at that age. They get dictation material that is entirely meant to be taught at home and they don't even go over it in class. My wife and I were really busy one week and slacked on doing daily dictation with our kid, and she bombed the test. I asked the teacher if they don't also practice it at school, and the teacher said no, that the material sent home and is meant to be taught at home. When I was in elementary school, all the work was done in class and if you had homework at that age, it was because you were goofing off and didn't do it in class.

We also decided, at the recommendation of the teacher, to get private tutoring after school a few days a week (because I am not a trained educator), and it isn't cheap. To our surprise, when we showed up in the evening for the tutoring, more than half of her class was also there getting private tutoring.