Homeschooling is your answer.
You can limit your children to one or two outside activities each; if the homework burden is too high you should talk to the teachers; but by all means you should make it clear to the children that homework is their responsibility , not youre, that you will only answer questions about what the teacher is asking them to do if the instructions are unclear. You already did first grade. Now it's time for your daughter to.
Vouchers and free school choice. Smash the liberal education monopoly.
Homeschooling - full-time. Make vouchers applicable to that as well.
This sounds like too much homework for a first grader.
The solution is called homeschooling. The work get done by noon at that age. then their is plenty of time for scouts, little league and play.
I had the same problem with my oldest. I felt like the learning the he was getting was from me instead of the classroom. So I decided to pull him home and teach him myself during the day instead of trying to fit it in during the evenig hours. One on one they learn quickly.
What time does she get on in the morning, and what hours is she spending actually in school?
And then you throw in the language barriers, and various learning disabilities, and the teachers aren't able to do their jobs.
Still using the "mainstreaming" experiment, too, I notice; no wonder nothing gets done in the classroom.
If you have to teach them at home anyway, you may as well homeschool, and be done with it. To bad you can't apply vouchers to homeschooling.
Or, can you? Anybody know?
Of course it's all Bush's fault. If he hadn't demanded 'No Chile Lef Behin' legislation that demanded kids actually learn stuff in schools, they would have ample time for tag, hide-n-seek, and arson.
Taxpayers need to stand up and demand politicians stop wasting their hard-earned tax dollars on incompetent teachers and corrupt unions.
I don't work 12-hour days so my money can be taken from me to fund the NEA's graft machine.
As others have said, HOMESCHOOLING. I'm sure there are others in your area who homeschool. They can help you get started. It should take an average ability first grader about an hour and half to get through the writing portion of the schooling each day. The rest ought to be able to be fitted around the teacher's schedule. This leaves plenty of play, family, and the important dream-and-imagine times.
Go for it. You'll never regret it.
I live in Flat Rock and see total successes in some neighborhood children who attend public (read government)schools.
No young child needs 1.5 hours of schoolwork per night in the early grades.
There is a lapse in intelligence here somewhere.
I do know that North Carolina ranks near the bottom in public education. But if parents are willing, ready, and able...they can beat the system and give their children the start necessary to get them into higher education and onto the road of a happy life.
I have to admit, though, that government education in NC is among the worst.
Yeah, how much time is this idiot parent wasting by letting them watch "Pokemon?"
I'm not sure I understand the problem here. Not enough family time together because of school? (Try homeschool!) "Having to do it at home" is a problem to get under control? Which is it?
We homeschool. That saves an hour of traveling, for starters. Then we get an extra seven hours a day of family time. And that's just the stuff you can quantify. :)
Homeschool. Sounds like that is already happening.
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Kids that young should not have homework. When I was in grade school (50s) there was no homework until about junior high school, or at least 5th or 6th grade. It's absolutely insane for little kids to have homework.
They need to go outside and play!
I wonder why they're cramming the kids like that. Probably to make them into better drones. Smash out any individuality.
Sounds like an exciting home life there, Mandy.
After dinner, we're going to play 'sit and stare'! Woohoo!
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