Nothing a little affirmation
Jumping back in time to a point where I was continuously complaining about homework. We are actually seeing some assignments come through now that cause Walker to struggle a little..the first night. After that, it’s all easy peasey for him and the two of us are bored to tears. And, of course for now, he isn’t too concerned with whether it gets done or not and I only concern myself with the fact that his teacher still wants me to sign off on whether he did it or not.
My parents were rarely asked to sign anything I brought home. I’m asked to sign off on his homework, his behavior and any other miscellaneous note that manages to make it into his folder for that day.
For older children though, the homework issues is still a big ugly fat sore in their life. And, the research just continues to grow in this department. I want to address something that a couple of public school teachers said to me. What they said, directly or indirectly, was this, “if you would spend as much time helping your kid do his homework as you do complaining about the homework, he would be much better off”
Hummm, ya think? Well, what if the research says that if you (the teacher) would spend more time teaching and at least figuring out if the homework that’s been assigned is doing my child a service, then I (and many others like me) wouldn’t need to continue to complain about the way the whole situation is handled.
With that, I give you, The Experts say homework raises stress levels. Humm…go figure….
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:10 am
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