re: OT Teachers...why is it a damn standard that you send home so much damn homework

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Private school

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that's the real answer to this common topic on here.

My kids do their common core homework at aftercare.

I just think its funny how all of these threads always turning into the same thing

the OP has a complaint, then everyone tells them they are bad parents and their kid is stupid

everytime

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All A's and B's.

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B's in elementary school?

Better have that 529 loaded up

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then everyone tells them they are bad parents and their kid is stupid

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See above

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god I love a good parenting thread

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Your kids will be fine..Children that start with common core get it..It is the kids who are forced into it after learning different ways that are having the issues..YES, it will be a different style than what you know, but its not rocket science

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Feel free to count the people agreeing with me

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Its not

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it is.

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Mine do it at home, then I go over it with them

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I do it most of the time like that but sometimes it's just way to new of a subject to start doing home
work on.

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School time is being eaten up by frickin team-building exercises and team projects. The real work, the most valuable work, (basic reading, writing, arithmetic) is being left to the parents to teach to their kids via "homework assignments", with a little power point thrown in for good measure. I think most of what they are doing during actual school hours right now is time-wasteful. There needs to be more efficient teaching taking place on a basic factual curriculum instead of "social", "political", & "interpersonal" standards... Those things are what should be taught from home.

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You can't rely on a team for everything. There are some things you need to know for yourself, but much of life is about individual achievement. The team exercises are a throwback to Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson's "Jigsaw Puzzle Learning Model" which was designed to help bring the slower kids up to the level of the brighter kids. Problem is .. it doesn't work that way. Most of those types of teams generally gravitate to the lowest common denominator, meaning that the brighter kids are held back. It's one big damned mistake. There is a time and a place for teamwork, but in most cases, the classroom should focus on what individuals are learning. There are other places to learn team work concepts such as extra-curricular activities. As a soon to be retired professional, I really look at the current teaching models with a great degree of pessimism. Generations are getting "dumbed down", and for what??????

My cousin is a teacher in EBR, and she said that teachers are mandated by the school principals to give homework in every subject, every night. The child is probably exhausted because of the quantity. It's counter productive to force children who have mastered material to do tons of homework just so the teacher can "check a box" and not get chewed out by the incompetent principals. I never had that much hone work, but with the technological demands being placed on students, it's no wonder the children are overwhelmed.

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You don't have to put up with that system, there are other options available if you don't agree with the public school system's way of doing things.

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I personally don't have to put up with that system, but that's because I have been fortunate. Most people do not have a choice.

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I'm pulling out my hair trying to teach him that retarded method when the normal way is quick and easy.

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I know this is speaking five decades back, but some knowledge is and should be simply a matter of rote memory. We learned basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division via rote memory. It works a lot better than what kids are doing today. When I taught statistics in college, there were a lot of kids who were just fricking lost on the easiest of stuff without a calculator.