re: OT Parents: Do you think there's too much homework assigned in the public school system?

My kids are not in public school. They get enough in private school and are learning a lot.

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They get enough in private school and are learning a lot.

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private schools have just as much bullshite with homework and more so studying.

Good goy

Sad thing is studies have pretty much proven homework is detrimental, not productive.

I'm graduated now but I had homework every day in elementary school, very little in middle school and in high school I didn't have homework once in all 4 years

Yep. Parents work however many hours a day then have to come home fix supper and tend to the house and they have to spend sometimes hours working through homework with the kids. It's like it's parents homework too because the young kids can't do it themselves.

Don't worry, it's cyclical. Follow the money.

I went to private school. I usually spent around 3 hours on homework/studying a night. Would have to spend much more than that the night before a test though. After a 3 hour practice, it sometimes seemed like a lot. It was the top ranked college prep school in BR thou, so it really isn't comparable to public school.

Yes,
Three grand-daughters in 5th, 7th and 8th grade. Most homework, and lots of it, is done on computer but the "research" that is done could be done in class more times than not. We've provide tax funds for Smart Boards and Smart TV's but they still have to come home and spend hours looking things up to complete practice tests. All they seem to do is practice taking tests and I'm sure it's all about the LEAP scores for the state school rankings. What happened to learning first??? Don't even get me started on how math is done these days! I have a Finance Degree and I have to throw out the way I learned math. Crazy!

haven't taught your kid how to network and get the answers from his classmates yet huh?