Aliceacc
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My kids love my 20 minute rule.
I wish the teachers of my own children would adopt it. My 9 year old one night had to write 19 spelling words 5 times each... and that was just the spelling homework! She has auditory processing issues and simply cannot sound out words. So getting 19 words out of 20 wrong on a spelling pretest wasn't bad enough; she had to rewrite each of the words 5 times. She learned a lot, but it wasn't spelling.
My kids )my students, that is) are also allowed to miss (and make up for full credit) up to 3 homeworks per marking period. Hey, sometimes life gets in the way of homework. When that happens, I would much rather they make it up honestly than copy it off someone in the cafeteria or on the bus.
I wish the teachers of my own children would adopt it. My 9 year old one night had to write 19 spelling words 5 times each... and that was just the spelling homework! She has auditory processing issues and simply cannot sound out words. So getting 19 words out of 20 wrong on a spelling pretest wasn't bad enough; she had to rewrite each of the words 5 times. She learned a lot, but it wasn't spelling.
My kids )my students, that is) are also allowed to miss (and make up for full credit) up to 3 homeworks per marking period. Hey, sometimes life gets in the way of homework. When that happens, I would much rather they make it up honestly than copy it off someone in the cafeteria or on the bus.
