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HELP my daughters school wants to pull her IEP!
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 585115" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>You don't have to take homework to zero (although we eventually did...)</p><p>One of the elementary schools we went through had a policy that struggling students shouldn't be spending more than 30 minutes a night on homework. If you were average or good, and wanted to put extra work into a project, that was fine. But as a parent, we had the right to pull the plug at 30 minutes, sign the top of the assignment and write the words "30 minutes". The teachers handed these off to the resource teacher... who then went looking for causes, etc. For us, at that school, it meant only doing 1/3 of the problems - after a couple of sheets went back, the teacher picked the ones she wanted difficult child to do.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes it's a bit of a tough challenge between trying to preserve the kid's self-esteem, and trying to get the right help. We had to get difficult child on-side (and succeeded, eventually), so we could really push back and get to zero homework. Now, in HS, all that comes home is reading, plus the occasional small almost-completed assignment - but he gets one period of the day with support, to get the homework done for all of his other classes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 585115, member: 11791"] You don't have to take homework to zero (although we eventually did...) One of the elementary schools we went through had a policy that struggling students shouldn't be spending more than 30 minutes a night on homework. If you were average or good, and wanted to put extra work into a project, that was fine. But as a parent, we had the right to pull the plug at 30 minutes, sign the top of the assignment and write the words "30 minutes". The teachers handed these off to the resource teacher... who then went looking for causes, etc. For us, at that school, it meant only doing 1/3 of the problems - after a couple of sheets went back, the teacher picked the ones she wanted difficult child to do. Sometimes it's a bit of a tough challenge between trying to preserve the kid's self-esteem, and trying to get the right help. We had to get difficult child on-side (and succeeded, eventually), so we could really push back and get to zero homework. Now, in HS, all that comes home is reading, plus the occasional small almost-completed assignment - but he gets one period of the day with support, to get the homework done for all of his other classes. [/QUOTE]
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