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fantasia322

Craftyscholar wrote: »

Sorry - I thought homework was something we did 'in the dark ages' - not some new idea (sure I remember going home with homework 50 years ago)
TV - now that is new. At least, we eventually had one - that's ONE in the living room and with the programmes chosen by the parents - not TVs all over the house.

Well I did'nt have homework at primary school, and minimal at Secondary(1969-1974). My kids were given homework at primary and high school. My DGD got homework aged 4 and its increased now she is 9.

Karmacat

Yep, I'm with you fantasia (I wrote fantastic!!!) I don't see that infants and primary school kids should be given homework.

cazmcf

About homework, in our school homework is started at age 4, with reading book. p2 the writen homework starts and it gets increasingly more as the years go on. In p6 and p7 the children have to do practice transfer tests on top of their homework and also at the weekends, and near the time of the transfer test the children are required to come in on a saturday morning for a mock exam.

I do think reading should be set as a homework, but not spellings and maths or english as well, it's just too much. Nearly every parent I have spoke to agrees.

robsmum_2

RE: Homework:

For my son's entire school life we had homework. Once he got to middle school at 9 it increased until upper school 13)where it increased again. He hated school with a vengance and homework just added to it. His thinking was "I go to school to do school work I refuse to do any more at home."

I tried every thing possible including bribery, nothing worked. Eventually, I spoke to the school and said " I am no longer prepared to do the homework battle, every night. You deal with it" They gave him lunchtime detentions - he did the work quite happily, in school and we had peaceful family time when he came home.

He suffered from poor health during his school life and frankly was exhausted after school.
He opted to go to college and once there I had to stop him working all hours.:j

The positive vibes didn't work, spent 6 hours in the old ladies house and no delivery! The good news is her family have insisited I be paid:j

Memory_Girl

I am not absent without leave - I am at the Fairmont St Andrews (google it you will be dead jealous) - with the French Mentor - OOh La la !!!

Fill you in on all the gossip in the morning - and there is gossip.LOL

Memorygirl

Double_Trouble

Memory_Girl wrote: »

I am not absent without leave - I am at the Fairmont St Andrews (google it you will be dead jealous) - with the French Mentor - OOh La la !!!

Fill you in on all the gossip in the morning - and there is gossip.LOL

Memorygirl

OK I googled and I am jealous and with a frenchman - stamps foot I want it to be me - please Universe:rotfl::rotfl:

DTxx

clairewop

Memory_Girl wrote: »

I am not absent without leave - I am at the Fairmont St Andrews (google it you will be dead jealous) - with the French Mentor - OOh La la !!!

Fill you in on all the gossip in the morning - and there is gossip.LOL

Memorygirl

Oh very posh

fantasia322

Don't need to google, I know the Fairmont (erm like WOW)...........!!!!!
The French Mentor as in I Vill say zees only vernce, French Mentor.
Ooooh get you.
Have a pleasant evening MG lol

robsmum_2

Lucky You MG.

snoozer

Mmmm, hope your being fed MG.

Re:homework, I remember having to learn spellings at school from about 8 upwards but nothing else until grammar school (1960's) dd and ds had reading until Middle School (9 up) but by the time it came to GCSEs and A levels the course work was quite horrendous and very often turned into family projects just to get them done. I was glad they both went away to uni, I needed the rest lol.