Were busy, both my kids are special needs, I'm juggling roughly 43 hours a week of therapy M-F between the 3 of us (and trying to work nights!) and that doesn't count my hour of physical therapy daily. For mine and my 14yo's sanity I had to put my 8yo 2nd grader into public school again this year, thats ok, she went last year and LOVED it. She's loving this year too and it gives us a break and I can focus on other stuff. One of the big issues is homework, I'm not talking about work that reinforces whats going on in the class. I'm talking busy work thats Kindy/early 1st grade level work sheets. I questioned the teacher on it as I was concerned on the level of education they were providing and was informed the teachers are told to give really easy, below grade level stuff just to get them in the habit of doing homework in the upper grades.
I am so not ok with this! She comes home from school bouncing off the walls and doesn't calm down until bedtime. She plays hard from the time she gets home until bedtime unless she has therapy which is 3 days a week after school in which we don't even get home until about 5:30 then I have to make dinner then we start our bedtime routine at 7pm. She's actually getting very little play time.
dd8 is getting upset that the teacher is giving her 0's and its effecting her grade and she's had recess taken away too. This is ridiculous! I don't have time/energy to deal with fighting her to do busy work and I don't even believe in homework until the teen years. How do I politely tell the teacher we don't do busy work for the sake of busy work? This kid has no issues academically beyond being a couple months behind in reading which I'm ok with, she's a late reader and making steady progress. An hour and a half of homework in 2nd grade is crazy.
I am so not ok with this! She comes home from school bouncing off the walls and doesn't calm down until bedtime. She plays hard from the time she gets home until bedtime unless she has therapy which is 3 days a week after school in which we don't even get home until about 5:30 then I have to make dinner then we start our bedtime routine at 7pm. She's actually getting very little play time.
dd8 is getting upset that the teacher is giving her 0's and its effecting her grade and she's had recess taken away too. This is ridiculous! I don't have time/energy to deal with fighting her to do busy work and I don't even believe in homework until the teen years. How do I politely tell the teacher we don't do busy work for the sake of busy work? This kid has no issues academically beyond being a couple months behind in reading which I'm ok with, she's a late reader and making steady progress. An hour and a half of homework in 2nd grade is crazy.