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#23 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:51:18 PM(UTC)
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If homework in grade 1 is taking that long, then there is a problem. My son is also in grade 1 and the teachers told us that the maximum time for homework is 20 minutes. That if they have reached 20 minutes we must stop, but we must speak to the teacher, because it means there is a problem - either they are not focusing, or talking too much or not understanding or something else. They will then work with the parent to resolve the problem. The majority of parents in the class seem to find that the children are taking about ten minutes to do homework. Our school is quite an academically focused school.
You need to speak to the teacher - either they have a warped idea of the value of homework (its just for revising and allowing parents to keep up to date with progress) or your child is not coping.
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#24 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:31:16 PM(UTC)
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It is not unlikely that a child in grade 1 gets 3 hours of homework!!!! My daughter, now in grade 8, was in a small private school in our town in grade 1 and she also received hours and hours of homework each day.This did not take hours because she had poor concentration or other skill problems. She did pre-primary for 3 years before 'big' school'. My daughter simply had a teacher who gave piles of homework each day.We would start with her homework at 2 o'clock when we arrived home and by 5 she would still be busy.The long timespan was merely because of the volume of work given for that day. By 6 my daughter would have an aching arm from writing huge quantities and would be in tears. This made her hate school and have an aversion to any homework. We finally asked to speak to the principle and several other parents followed suit. After this, a reasonable amount of homework was given that took about 1/2 an hour in all. There are many good teachers out there, but there are also a few who aren't...
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#25 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:18:21 PM(UTC)
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Our son attends an up-class private school in Benon which has high standards. Over and above his sporting activities in and out of school, homework must be done, and then if there is time, playtime apart from soccer from five to six twice a week with matches on Saturday mornings.
He is in GR1. Mini cricket is about to start on top of everything else, but yet, we still look for that extra time for the thing called "Playtime" I don't have a problem with homework as the stimulation and revision is necessary, but have a problem with the volume. His 3 year old staffie also needs playtime with his best friend.
Homework can take anything up to an hour after school before or after extra mural activities. I feel sorry for the parents who work full day get home after "six mabe'" and still need to do the school stuff and kids need to be in bed by 8 0 clock to rest enough for the next day and be up at 6 AM.
The question is; what is and what is not an acceptable standard?.
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#26 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:39:55 PM(UTC)
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In my kids school, where the cane still works etc...the teacher is strict on the fact that the learner should spend 15minute 100% concentrating on homework...and then just play. What you cannot do in 15 minutes...will not get done. After that year my kids stayed positive about homework and concentration is perfect. As soon as you kid sit in front of his/her homework staring out the window, it's time to go play outside.
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#19 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:42:52 PM(UTC)
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In grade 1 that is much, much too long. When does the child have a life, play sport, get to play outside, have friends over and just chill. Life is about balance and, sorry to say, you will only know if you have the next Isaac Newton or Marie Curie once the child gets to High School.

Sounds like a school that idolises academic performance above all else. Can anyone say "Crawford".



Im so chocked, yes my child goes to Crawford
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#27 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:50:24 PM(UTC)
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Her home work consist of numeracy, phonics,reading and "cut and paste" for theme on that day e.g My family, Type of animals,road signs so far.She started grade R at the same school also started pre-school at the age of 3.
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#28 Posted : Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:59:13 PM(UTC)
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That is insane. My daughter is in a well regarded school in Cape Town's northern suburbs. In grade 1 and 2 we were told 30 minutes of homework. She never did more than 45 minutes. The kid has already spent hours at school, it is very unhealthy to spend another three hours on school work at night. Speak to the teacher, or the the grade head. If your child's school has more than one grade 1 class, check with parents who have kids in other classes. It may be that you just got an overzealous teacher. The purpose of homework should be to consolidate what they did in class, that's all. You should not be doing work that you are paying the school to do.
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#29 Posted : Friday, February 11, 2011 10:51:42 AM(UTC)
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My son is in Grade 3 and we sit for 2 - 3 hours everyday for homework. On top of that if they do not finish their class work they have to do that at home as well. Most of the kids in Grade 3 are spedning the same amount of work so it cannot be that some children are slow. I feel that the teachers should be doing their jobs properly instead of letting us do the teaching.

We are also told to spend quality time with out kids !!!!!! When are we meant to do that if you are working parents and then need to sit and do homework during quality time.

Teachers wake up and give the kids a break. In the old days teachers could cope, kids were plain naughty and did not have ADD ADHD etc etc. We did not get a lot of homework and there are a lot of successful people from that eraWe did not have to be little robots as is expected of kids today. If they do not behave like a robot you are expected to put them on medication so they become robots. I would hate to know what will happend to all these kids when they are adults
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#30 Posted : Friday, February 11, 2011 1:57:37 PM(UTC)
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I feel that the teachers should be doing their jobs properly instead of letting us do the teaching.

That how I feel now, because the reason we take this long to finish up her homework is because I have to "teach her" not help her with her homework.When I asked the teacher about my child's behaviour in class whether does she listen or not. Her teacher responded she is fine, she behaves in class.When I ask her what did they do in class she will tell me about the things we did the previous day.I think her homework get difficult because it is not something they did in class but something they are going to do tommorrow which I do not thing it is the right way of teaching small kids. These teachers they just want to brush up there and there after we have done the teaching for them.
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#31 Posted : Friday, February 11, 2011 2:24:52 PM(UTC)
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Not normal AT ALL!! My child is also in grade 1 and we do 30 minutes max homework per day. Includes reading, math's, reading words and playing with the alphabet cards. And that is after they have already did that work in class - isn't that the way homework is suppose to be - recap what you did in class?
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#7 Posted : Sunday, February 13, 2011 2:10:29 PM(UTC)
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No, the schools just think you need to 'participate' in your child's learning, every day, for hours on end. Does not matter that you probably pay a fortune for school in the first place. My daughter also took ages to complete homework, but you will be astonished to find out how much time is wasted in school, which is why so much work is sent home.
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#32 Posted : Tuesday, February 15, 2011 2:45:50 PM(UTC)
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My son is also in Grade 1 and we were told at the beginning of the year that 20 minutes of homework is the norm for them. That is what we do and it is just long enough for my son to do the homework and remain focused. 3 hours seems insane to me for such little ones. But speak to the teacher and see what is expected.

A full day of school and after-school activities exhausts my son and we have no problems getting him to sleep early during the week. If he had 3 hours of homework instead of 20 mins (which he does diligently every day) I think he would be in a coma by now! I believe children need to have space to learn about life from doing the work of children - which is playing! Hope you can find a way out of this situation. I would think the 1st thing is to talk to the teacher.
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