Homework For Parents?

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Registered: 01-12-2005
Homework For Parents?
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Thu, 10-04-2007 - 3:52pm
In an effort to get parents more involved in their children’s education, a high school English teacher in New Jersey is asking his students’ parents to complete weekly homework assignments. Some parents seemed happy to revisit their high school years, others were more resistant. What do you think? Is this is a good idea? Would you be willing to do homework for your child’s class?

 
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Registered: 03-27-2005
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 7:45am

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I totally agree.

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Registered: 08-03-2004
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 2:24pm
I have to agree with the "heck no".
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Registered: 08-25-2000
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 2:34pm

Mark me in the heck no column as well.

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Registered: 11-28-1999
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 3:54pm

I don't see how a school could require parents to do any kind of homework.

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Registered: 08-26-2007
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 4:04pm

"As for school-home involvement - I'd rather see the TEACHERS have a weekly assignment to EMAIL ME about what's going on in class."


I second this!!!

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Registered: 08-17-2005
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 4:09pm


AMEN, SISTER!

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Registered: 04-30-2000
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 5:11pm
I would have to say no.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-05-2007 - 8:11pm
Give me a freakin' break! I agree that this idea of parents having homework is ludicrous, but you want to pile one more thing on the teacher's plate?! I'm not even getting to see my kids grow up as it is. As a full time high school teacher, I work every day until 6:00, pause for dinner, and put in 3 more hours until bedtime. I work the whole weekend. Just today I have to: Mark a pile of essays (about 40), prepare progress reports (they go home by-weekly) and do up IPP's (Individual program plans for special needs students, of which I have 13). I have to phone the parents of all kids who've accumulated 3, 7, or 11 absenses in my class (and with 4 class of 30 students each, there are quite a few!). Somewhere in there I also have to actually TEACH the classes, which includes alternate readings and assignments for the academically challenged kids (so I have to take the text book and paraphrase whatever we are reading), behaviour management for the kids that are relentlessly disruptive, and endlessly running around trying to help whatever 8 kids skipped class yesterday to get caught up. Oh, yeah, and class has to be fun and
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Registered: 10-16-1999
Sat, 10-06-2007 - 12:27am

You sound like the kind of dedicated teacher we need to clone, rather than to overburden until they're burned out and leave the profession!

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Registered: 03-06-2006
Sat, 10-06-2007 - 11:55am

You sure sound like the exception, rather than the norm, when it comes to dedicated teachers.