Re: UPDATE: Re: first day of kindergarten and homework!

toypup wrote:
Things sort of got a bit out of hand the last two nights. DS started
destroying his homework out of frustration. I seriously was going to
take
him out of school, like this month, instead of waiting out the year like
I
planned.

This is so sad. I've been following along the thread and wondering about
the poor kindergarten children expected to do all this homework every night.
If the expectations at this school are so developmentally inappropriate at
this age, can you be sure the school will get it right at any other age?
Imagine making a kindergartner write every night!

I remember when DS was in K last year, they showed us how children begin
writing with squiggles that barely approximate written characters. It was
explained that some children were at that stage, some others were writing a
few letters, some others could write most or all of the alphabet. All
ability levels were considered normal, with the expectation that they would
all be writing by the end of the year.

Homework in K was a monthly calendar with an activity typed in each weekday.
Something like, count all the windows in your house or practice writing the
lowercase b. It was at the parents' discretion to do these activities;
nothing was ever turned in. I'm feeling very fortunate to be in such a
great school district where they don't pour on the HW inappropriately.
(BTW, DD is going into 3rd grade, and I've been happy with the amount of HW
she's had as well.)

(Strangely, I don't ever see toypup's e-mail, so I'm responding to someone
else's quoted reply.)

-Patty, mom of 1+2


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