Yes, it is excessive.
Studies show that kids that do homework actually have lower grades than kids that do not ever have homework.
If you sit them side by side and test them the kids that did not have homework will generally have higher grades. Study after study is showing this.
I don't know why this is true but there are too many researchers finding the same thing to quickly dismiss it.
I plan on telling the teachers they will not be doing this. You are the parent, say no. Tell the teachers they need to coordinate their work because they are each sending too much home and your child is a child.
Kids should have some free time. If we counted school as work then they've already put in their 8 hours by the time they get home.
How many adults have to work 8 hours per day then go home and have 2-3 or even 4 hours of work at home, each and every day.
There are labor laws that prohibit this if the child is actually bringing in a paycheck. But it's just school so the teachers think they're supposed to send this much stuff home every day.
Tell them no, they have to coordinate homework. If a kid is involved in anything extra, like church, like trying to have a part time job so they can save money for college, like spending time with their family, anything outside of school then they need free time in the evening.
When I was in the youth leadership at church every month in our area meetings every single youth leader would report that their youth stopped coming to church and stopped participating in activities because they were bombarded with homework, hours of homework should not interfere with a youth attending church.
We all know I hate homework and think it's wrong if a teacher can't teach during school hours. I truly think if they can't do it then there is something totally wrong going on in that classroom.
Last year our girls teacher flat out told me, I am in fear of losing my job if these kids don't show the percentage of improvement on their testing. I cannot teach anything in this classroom that is not on the standardized testing because if these kids don't do what is expected I will be fired.
That's just sad. Kids need freedoms to explore an idea, if all the light bulbs over their heads are going off and they're learning something, it's a peak moment. The teacher should be able to focus on that for as long as the students want. It shouldn't be where she has to say "Sorry kids, I know we're excited about electricity and how it works (or what ever topic ther=y're studying) but it's time to focus on math for the next 4 hours then we're going to sit quietly and read for the next 2. This stuff isn't important".
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Yes, it is excessive.
Studies show that kids that do homework actually have lower grades than kids that do not ever have homework.
If you sit them side by side and test them the kids that did not have homework will generally have higher grades. Study after study is showing this.
I don't know why this is true but there are too many researchers finding the same thing to quickly dismiss it.
I plan on telling the teachers they will not be doing this. You are the parent, say no. Tell the teachers they need to coordinate their work because they are each sending too much home and your child is a child.
Kids should have some free time. If we counted school as work then they've already put in their 8 hours by the time they get home.
How many adults have to work 8 hours per day then go home and have 2-3 or even 4 hours of work at home, each and every day.
There are labor laws that prohibit this if the child is actually bringing in a paycheck. But it's just school so the teachers think they're supposed to send this much stuff home every day.
Tell them no, they have to coordinate homework. If a kid is involved in anything extra, like church, like trying to have a part time job so they can save money for college, like spending time with their family, anything outside of school then they need free time in the evening.
When I was in the youth leadership at church every month in our area meetings every single youth leader would report that their youth stopped coming to church and stopped participating in activities because they were bombarded with homework, hours of homework should not interfere with a youth attending church.
We all know I hate homework and think it's wrong if a teacher can't teach during school hours. I truly think if they can't do it then there is something totally wrong going on in that classroom.
Last year our girls teacher flat out told me, I am in fear of losing my job if these kids don't show the percentage of improvement on their testing. I cannot teach anything in this classroom that is not on the standardized testing because if these kids don't do what is expected I will be fired.
That's just sad. Kids need freedoms to explore an idea, if all the light bulbs over their heads are going off and they're learning something, it's a peak moment. The teacher should be able to focus on that for as long as the students want. It shouldn't be where she has to say "Sorry kids, I know we're excited about electricity and how it works (or what ever topic they're studying) but it's time to focus on math for the next 4 hours then we're going to sit quietly and read for the next 2. This stuff isn't important".