<p>if a student is having 3 hours of homework in 3rd grade then there needs to be a meeting ASAP.
Students generally should have 10 min per grade a night. 1st grade 10 min. 2nd grade 20 min.
By the time they are in high school it is more uneven, but if a student regularly needs to study for more than 3 hours a night, they either have a learning problem, have way too much homework or both.
I realize some teachers assign busy work, but reams of it, doesn't make sense at all. After all isn't the teacher correcting it and handing it back? More work for them if they are assigning time consuming projects.
What kind of homework would they assing in 2nd grade?</p>
<p>Projects, that stupid science fair crap year after year, worksheet after worksheet in elementary school. In 8th grade we had to do some silly journal thing we had to waste 10 minutes of every English class writing the answer to a question or two in--like current events, etc. Most of 8th grade English was spent on things like how to use commas in sentences, structure of sentences, etc. I can't even honestly remember much real reading then. Just stupid stuff. We(as in all students) even had crossword puzzles in 6th-7grade. Supposedly it was to help students learn health related words and things for science and social studies.</p>
<p>In 5th or 6th grade, D had one of those "find the word" doohickies. Her brain didn't work upside down and backwards and diagonally and it took her literally hours. I called her teacher the next day and said I didn't want her spending that amount of time on something so ridiculous. The teacher said that the next time she got one for homework she should spend twenty minutes on it and then stop, so that's what she did. But I'm not in a position to do anything about the masses of homework she gets in high school.</p>
<p>I agree it's important to check out and be aware of mental health resources on campus - however, legally if your child is over 18, the college treats them as an adult and legally may not discuss their mental health (or their grades) with you. As unfair as that seems, there is another side to the story. Sometimes the parent's involvement can do more harm than good. Sometimes the parent is part of the problem (from what I've read about the Elizabeth Shin case, the family pressure was intense); sometimes the parent is abusive; sometimes the parent is an alcoholic; sometimes the parent is menally ill. Often there are kind and loving parents, but not always.</p>
<p>BTW--Emerald..if you want something else ridiculous. In middle school and high school the health textbooks did not have reproduction and STD's information in them because the school system didn't want to teach us that stuff or something. So every health textbook had sections ripped out. Why someone would order hundreds of textbooks and then rip sections out because they are too scared to talk about reproduction is beyond me....</p>
<p>Does this happen anywhere else?</p>
<p>that is bizarre blue
My daughters high school encourages students to attend top colleges but state only pays for 5 classes a term ( and for college you often need 4 years foreign lang, 4 years history, 4 years english, 4 years math, 4 years science not to mention arts), high school offers 6 classes but given the state requirements of PE and occ ed/health credits, that really squeezes many students.Hence now they are allowing students to take the health class at BYU online.
Even though I am not sure how BYU is going to teach health compared with her high school, I am considering it, just cause it would free up a term to add an art or music class
<a href="http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/catalog/description.cfm?type=hs&subject=58&univ_id=662525041002#%5B/url%5D">http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/catalog/description.cfm?type=hs&subject=58&univ_id=662525041002#</a></p>
<p>Here you can get by with just taking Algebra I, Alegbra II and Geometry , English I through IV, 2 semesters of one foreign language, 3 years of social studies courses (or three semesters rather--like...World History, ELPS, and U.S. History), 3 sciences (Physical Science, Bio, Chemistry or Earth Science), Health (1 semester), and some electives (I can't remember how many). But those are the minimum requirements.</p>
<p>Or they used to be. I'm not sure if those requirements have changed at all.</p>