Do you think your kids have too much homework? Not older children, I mean in elementary school?

Not older children, I mean in elementary school. Just yesterday my third grader came home and his homework was so much that 3/4 of the way through I said that's it for now. And I never made him go back and finish.

After filling in 18 words missing from sentences that made up (5) paragraphs, he had to rewrite the whole thing. 5 paragraphs, 22 sentences all together and he had a math sheet too. I personally think that is a wee bit much for an eight year old.

What do your kids have for homework? Asked by Mugsie! ™ 39 months ago Similar questions: kids homework older children elementary school Education & Reference > K Through 12.

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I'm so glad.... my kids are done and even finished with college. Yes, I agree with you. The poor kids, spend the whole day in classes (it's just like having a friggin job) and when they come home they have the lenghty projects, research, and hundreds of words to memorize the spelling.

Why are they really making such an effort for the kids to hate school? Must be terrorist teachers. I was a Chemistry professor many years ago and I am not against education.

I am against the "busy work" that the kids are subjected to. They should come home after school, have time to play outside, get some fresh air and bond with their little friends. If they are old enough joining a team of their favorite sport or elective music instrument classes.

Adults come home and drink to unwind! What do the little ones do? My neighbors work in the city and they come home by train around 6:30PM.

Their kid (4th grader) was in school the whole day, after school care until 6:30PM. He waits for the parents to help with the work. The mother is battling an illness, works the whole day, has to prepare dinner etc.10PM this little family still seating at a table with the kid doing work.

The expectations are just too much and I believe that the teachers want to impress the parents. Teachers should plan about one hour a day of homework that does not need parent involvement unless it is quizzing on spelling and math tables..

Yes Almost any homework for young elementary kids is too much. Actually, the case is being made for homework through all ages is too much. Back when I was a hydrologist in the midwest, I spent a lot of time testing water for fertilizers.

The water was always high. Some wells I tested were higher than the recommended concentration of fertilizer for the fields that were being irrigated. Still, almost all farmers added more fertilizer.

Why? Because there was a perception that farmers weren’t doing the right thing if they didn’t try harder to make their fields grow more. Not adding fertilizer was "cheating."

Conservationists and college professors could not convince them of this errant reasoning, because the perception was too strong. It is the same way with education. There is no proof that homework makes a better student, but there is a perception that trying harder = doing more homework = better students.

Therefore, doing less homework means not trying hard enough which means teaching kids to be lazy. That’s clearly a false assumption. I’ve never found a teacher who could site a study that showed more homework would make better students.

But it isn’t the teachers’ fault usually. It is usually the parents fault as they will pressure the schools to make the students work harder. And I’ve never heard a parent site a study about education at all.

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Well, I was SHOCKED... ...at how much homework, and how difficult the kids have nowadays. I was staying with a friend, and her two kids came home from school - kindergarten and second grade. They plunked right down a little table and started doing homework!

The second grader asked me if I'd like to help her with her "algebra". I thought, "How cute is that? She's calling Algebra!"

It WAS Algebra. The kindergartner was trying to add up coins, which meant he had to know the value of quarters, dimes and nickels. They both had about an hour of homework, and that was not including reading time - they are supposed to read every night.It seems like twenty years ago a kindergartner had about 15 minutes of homework, and it involved coloring something.

And a second grader might have 30 minutes of homework, and it would involve learning addition and subtraction - multiplication didn't even really start until 3rd grade. So, either I have a very faulty memory (and that's entirely possible!) or kids not only have a lot of homework, but it's more difficult. When do they just get to be kids?

I'd rather see more days of school, and more work done at school, and let kids have time to be kids and PLAY. They grow up too fast as it is, and 5 or 6 years old is way too young to already be stressing out about keeping up with classmates - but at this pace, they have to worry! .

For my fourth grader... So far this year, her homework hasn't been too drastic. She can usually finish it in about 30 or 40 minutes (that includes time spent complaining). She typically has one math paper a night, plus a sheet of seven sentences to edit and re-write.

The math has been very simple review stuff so far, with some coloring thrown in to make it "fun. " The editing, she can't stand. What I've learned is to not let her decide when to do her homework, but to make her do it before dinner.

When we let her wait until after dinner, she's tired, gets distracted too easily, and ends up crying because she feels rushed to finish in order to have some reading time before bed. Last night when she was crying over her homework I reminded her that I'd suggest several times she start it earlier and she made a choice to wait. That choice resulted in no reading time, which means she's behind on her reading log for class.

She has to read for at least 15 minutes each day and keep a record of what she's reading. That part is easy for her, since she loves to read and usually reads for at least half an hour before going to bed. My daughter's teacher this year cracks me up.

One night there was no homework, and my daughter said, "Oh, the teacher didn't give us homework because today's her birthday. " I got a kick out of that! Tonight's homework is to correct mistakes on the math test they took today.My daughter doesn't have to do it because she got 100% on the test.

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It depends. Somewhere between 30 minutes & 45 minutes is about the proper amount for a 3d grader. This would be an average time over a period of time by most of the kids.

I don't know how long the work you described would take to complete. Some kids might finish a bit sooner & other kids may take a bit longer.

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Looking for ways to teach social skills to elementary aged kids. Any suggestions. Am a beginner school counselor.Thx.

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