2nd Grade Homework
March 4th, 2007 by COD
Check out the weekly homework from Menlo Park Elementary School. It sort of makes you wonder what they are doing all day in school, as they have outsourced reading, math, writing, spelling, and handwriting to be done at home.
And I love this opening graff.
Homework is given out on Mondays and is to be returned to class on Friday morning. If your child has forgotten their homework on Friday, PLEASE do not bring it in for them. You have already been to second grade – it is their time to learn responsibility.
So it’s apparently better that a 7 year old fail for the week then have mom bring his homework by. Because all we know 7 year olds have have the cognitive ability to take a 5 day work load on Monday, parse it out over the week, and remember to bring it all back on Friday. When I was coaching 7 year old pee-wee baseball I considered it a moral victory when the kids ran first base without forgetting where they were going half way down the first base line.
via this Slashdot discussion of schools cutting back on homework.
Update: Here is a well done fisking of the grammar skills exhibited in the teachers note about homework.
7 Responses to “2nd Grade Homework”
That is a tad ridiculous. I have been taking polls among the school chums and I think the amount of homework varies widely from school to school. A mom of a 5th grader recently told me he has about 40 minutes a night of homework.
OMG, who wrote that grammatically incorrect piece of crap?
They have 30 minutes of recess and 45 for lunch. What are they doing the other 4:45?
Now, now, Chris. You know that all children are smarter now, don’t you? They must be.
We kept testing them and they kept failing so we pushed all that stuff they used to learn in K and 1st grade down to pre-K and K and by the time they get to 2nd grade, they are all doing 3rd grade work, so they can get ready for the do-or-die 3rd grade test (which my Mom, the 3rd grade classroom volunteer, informs me is just lots of yucks — because all of the 3rd graders she sees have pretty much given up on passing and they know nothing but the annual test counts toward passing the 3rd grade so why bother reading anything that isn’t test prep — and even then, why bother. . . my Mom did seem a tad upset by this level of resignation in 8 and 9 year olds, but, like you, she needs to toughen up and catch up with the times!).
Geesh, with your kind of coddling focus on what is developmentally-appropriate, how are the 3rd graders going to have time for non-stop test prep and how are all the kids going to be reading at exactly the right level in time to justify their schools’ budgets and teachers’ salaries??
Nance
The mom of a 3rd grader in the fencing club reports 90 minutes a night. Her kindergartener is given reading assignments to take home. The earlier the indoctrination starts the better I guess.
The fisker missed the great big title of this list, “Homework Expections.” What exactly is an expection?
Thank you for the linkback and kind comments!
What I didn’t mention, and didn’t see here either is that she claims to have “a Ed.M. in Reading”. She has also changed the page since the articles started. The title is now correct and children should read “a minimum of 10 per night”, “spelling test are given”, and most of the original mistakes. The Ed.M. is supposedly from Harvard as well.
Scratch the correction I listed. The title as displayed in the browser is still incorrect.