Home Work

[Billnew]

My 4th grade daughter is regularly bringing home 3-4 hours of home work a night.
and on some weekends she is spending 8 hours with the home work. (not counting memorization.)

She is already wanting to quit school.
Is this normal or is our teacher overloading the kids?

Other teachers(other grades) Mentioned that 4th grade is very tough with
home work. But when my daughter is spending 63 hours on school a week this is crazy.(40hours in school, 15 hours after school and 8 hours on week end.)

Another teacher said there was the tradition of ten minutes of homework per grade level. (40minutes?)

 

[Yamialpha]

No, it's not normal for a fourth-grader to have that much homework. I rarely had homework as a fourth-grader. There have been complaints filed with my school because high-schoolers had approx. that same amount. If I were you, I'd appeal to the schoolboard and talk to the teachers assigning such an excess amount of homework.

 

[Meggles]

WoW! that is way to much homework for a 4th grader. When i was in 4th grade i never really had any homework.

 

[ZACTAK]

That is a lot! My cousin is in 4th grade and she gets about that too, so this might become the norm, but it is a lot!

 

[Phoebe]

That is alot. And she's in school forty hours a week? Where's the overtime pay?
Have you spoken to her teacher about it? I would think that if she had poor time management skills in the classroom, you would have been notified by now.

 

[Mal2]

...and people wonder why the nation is going to the dogs...

you complain (and your daughter) of too much homework, i say more education is a good thing, and when she complains tell her that japanese kids have it even worse than she does...

besides if you are in a private school, then you shouldn't complain becasue you were the one that put your child there, and if you aren't then look into private schooling

 

[TheOneandOnlySummerTime]

I personally believe that Compulsory Educaiton is one of the WORST institutions ever established on American soil, it is demolishing the very souls of our children, I may be an extremist, but there is a TON of evidence that I base my theory on, spend anytime studying human nature and the foundations of public school and you will realize something is gravely wrong! Just do a search for "Compulsory Education" you will be astounded! (A site entitled "Strike the root" offers a VERY good history)