Just damn.
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The dad's a weenie. If I were that kid, I would die of embarassment.
This "child" has lots bigger problems than homework with clueless parents like this one!
On one hand, I agree that schools have no legal authority to tell kids what to do over the summer. On the other hand, the parents should be making them do math during the summer :-). On the other, other hand, people who file lawsuits like this are noodles.
The school has no authority during the summer.
but if this parent was truly involved, the kid would be doing math/reading/writing over the summer anyway....
I liked this one. Just as soon as the kid turns off the iPod and comes home from hanging out at the mall or doing dope with friends, there might be time for homework. This is so especially sensitive !!
Here is a link to the syllabus for the course I teach:
http://www.webster-info.org/Syllabi.asp?CID=2161
On about the third screen down, depending on your font and window sizes, you will see a 50 page reading assignment, a study guide assignment, and three problems to be submitted by Email BEFORE the first class.
This kid would NOT get any sympathy from me.
I'm with the parent & kid on this one. The teachers certainly 'work' on the basis of a contract with specified calendar limits. Moreover, if the kid wanted to go to summer school, he could enroll in 'summer school', for which he would accumulate extra credit towards graduation. And finally, a 16-17 year old kid in high school honors calculus could damn well spend the summer taking classes at a local university & be earning credits towards a college degree. This is a clear case of the public school overstepping its bounds and IMO, they can go fly a kite.
Ack. When I was in high school, I always had work to do over the summer to prepare for next year's classes. Either summer reading, math problems, science work- I even had to read an entire history book and take notes one summer. The first thing that the history teacher did on the first day of school was give us a quiz on some of the material. The kid should suck it up and grow up.
I bet this "kid" has someone hold his lunch money everyday...
Both the father and his lawyer need to be severely beaten and the child needs to be caned.
As for pressure on kids for ever increasing performance, I'm sorry, but I just don't see that coming from the public schools.
I was "required" to read the Autobiography of Malcom X before the first day of college. I just didn't, and then I skipped the lectures about it during orientation week, and nobody ever noticed.
This guy must never have heard about AP classes where large summer assignments are given out before the class ever starts. This is the norm in such classes, and it keeps a student's mind sharp over the lazy days of summer.
This dad is an idiot.
If you don't do the homework do they send you back to the grade you just finished? To whom is the work turned in, the former teacher or the new teacher?
Just damn.
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Smooth move on the part of the parent ... fast forward a few years to the kid looking for a job: the routine background check that is now part of just about every hire in the nation turns up this article along with the lawsuit and the prospective employer knows there is a slacker standing before them. Hope daddy can sue him into a job.
Homework? What's Homework? (Product of Minneapolis Public School System.)
Boo fricken hoo. This is for an honors class. If the boy can't do the work, he needs to go back to regular classes.
My daughter did homework for honors and AP classes over the summer as did the majority of her friends. It is part of the requirement for advanced classes and they had to sign contracts.