my daughter's homework

starbelgrade wrote: »

You gotta get your priorities straight. It's the Semi-Final of the Champions League.

If my child was being tortured in the shed by a murderous sadist & I knew about it, I'd still watch the match.

Surely that'd be unlikely to happen seeing as he's watching the match?

Just burn down the school. She has more time to finish her homework, everyone gets a holiday, jobs are created for firemen, engineers, architects and builders. It's win-win.

Arson, the original panacea.

ShamoBuc wrote: »

a 6th class student should get 1hr homework a night. 10 mins per class approx is the rough guideline given. If your child is taking 3 hours it could mean doing the homework while watching the tv and having a snack or dinner and going on the net etc. is included. Given that it's May I would imagine this is the first time it has taken 3 hrs - if it isn't, you are not doing a good job.
Maybe the project was given gefore Easter but just never done during the holidays and now the pressure is on. There are alot of possibilities, a bit more info would be handy.
From my experience as a primary teacher, no teacher has ever given 3hours plus homework on any given night, there's more to the story I would imagine, I could of course be wrong.

In my experience as a primary school student, a small minority of teachers are sadistic and evil, could just be that. I certainly had that experience in primary school, had one absolutely horrible teacher. This was nearly 20 years ago now though, so I assume that kind of thing is against said guidelines.

Wait... you're a teacher, you could do the homework in record time.

OP - Result!

Alice1 wrote: »

I'm with all the others who said that 3 hours of homework is way too much for an 11 year old. My DD is same age and doing Confirmation this year too and I have to say I would call a halt on the homework and send in a note.

To those of you who don't know what Confirmation homework is - take it from me that our generation was only half Confirmed - in fact seeing the amount of stuff my DD has to do for the Confimation, I think maybe that we weren't confirmed at all!

Now, how did you get on with the Maths?

DD? Your breast?

Sefirah wrote: »

he would take their farms away, and everything oh everything they haaaad
Zacchaeuuuuuuuuuuuuuus, ZacchaeUUUUUUUUUUUUUS
Zachaeus was a greedy little man









Please shoot me

guranteed to be buzzing around my head tonight when im trying to sleep

I would have rebelled myself if a teacher gave me three hours when I was in 6th class (although my 6th class teacher was really cool).

How much of this is confirmation homework and how much of it is regular ****e?

And which bit are you doing?

Ypur darling daughter wotn learn anythign if you do it for her. I think DD had daddy wrapped ha:D

PinkFly wrote: »

guranteed to be buzzing around my head tonight when im trying to sleep

pow wow wrote: »

NO! Not until you recite the ten commandments

DD is internet mum shorthand for darling daughter. Said internet mum might have awesome tahtahs, but she most definitely has a daughter.

Of all the posts on this, I's pretty sure which one will be in my head tonight!!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Yes, I meant Darling Daughter. So sorry I offended thee. I shall now shamble away, a broken woman.

There is a serious amount of Confirmation homework to be done and I have also helped with it. Pictures of the candidate at various ages, copy of Baptismal Cert, memories of First Holy Communion, parents memories of baptism, list of reasons why the candidate wants to be confirmed, fruit of the Holy Spirit etc, etc, etc.

Still don't know the difference between a conjunction and a preposition though

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

confirmation homework

What?? You get homework for confirmation??

Aaaahhhhhh:mad::mad::mad: this drives me berzerk. I hope to jebus you are just having a laugh and not doing your kid's homework. When you can think clearly please ask yourself the following question.....

Q: When I do my child's homework I am teaching my daughter...

(a) that homework has no importance.
(b) that she can gain nothing by completing it.
(c) that she can say to the teacher "yes, I did my homework" when this is not the case.
(d) that she is not really expected to do it.
(e) that someone do things for her / bail her out.

Just tick off whichever you think is the answer.

OK bring on the criticism.. harsh.. get off your high horse.. take that thing out of your h0le etc. etc.
I am super sensitive to this I know.It's cos recently I've seen some bad cases of parents NOT realizing what they are teaching their children through their actions. Saying one thing/ doing another.....'helping'/when really they are not helping.

Don't bother with the 'ah she's only___ years old or they give too much homework or it is too difficult or the teacher is 'crap'. If you believe in those, then address those.
Too Young - talk to the school, ask them to explain their policy or practices, get information.
Too much homework - see above, look for info, ask other parents to gauge the situation.
Too difficult - again see above, but do not do the typical thing and only get involved when the teacher mentions something or there is a problem with some assessment or other. Take a proactive approach and interest in your kid's education. Sit down with them more often, start homework a little earlier in the day without making a big deal about it, ask what they are learning, pretend you don't understand something she is reading or learning and ask her to explain it to you, all in a softly softly way.
Teacher is crap - that is the easiest thing to say of the cuff for an adult or a child. Again, info , talks, etc etc.

OP, I don't mean to bag on you, I think in reality I am just getting some crap off my chest re: other people I've seen recently. You could be the best parent out there and this was just some one-off case for whatever reason. Still, some people may read this and get some good out of it.I'm sure other's will say 'what a twat" Oh well.

And finally, as the smoke rises from my finger tips and I mop up the trickle of blood that is now running down my forehead from banging it of the wall in rage, I apologize to AH for an out of character 'serious' post. The matter was close to my heart and I couldn't refer to piss nor to blasting nor any other such tom foolery..................next time though, next time.