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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
some homework is ok but it seems kids are getting more and more piled on them these days. its a pretty strange situation really. they are expecting kids to learn more and more yet constantly lowering expectations that the kids will actually be able to do it by having a 'no one is held back' policy.
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We have a kindergarten and first grader, both have homework every week, other than vacation weeks. It starts right after they start school now... and it sucks.
They aren't learning more, the no child left behind act makes it so they learn only enough to pass the placement-funding-graduation tests, and not a drop more. Everything they do from kindergarten up is all based off these performance and placement tests.... If your kid can read/understand and write just fine, but they suck at standardized testing, they're put in remedial classes until they catch up. If they rock the tests, they're split apart from the rest and put in better classes, if a ratio of students can hit this mark, they get funding for the programs & more school money overall - if not, they get punished with less funding.