Val, I'm entirely with you, FWIW.
It isn't clear to me why rigor = more homework or why acceleration = more homework. The question isn't "Can the student learn the material?" The question is "Why does the student need to have so much homework?"
Yes. My DD has ZERO problem learning the material at her school (which is a GT magnet but I think you all know that). Actually, much of it is too easy, but it's the closest we can come to an appropriate placement; before we moved her she was having to read Frog and Toad and add 2 + 2 in 1st and about ready to stab her eyeballs out.
She does have problems completing all that effing homework, though. But we could have kept her at Old School, which had much less HW. Should we have? She says this one is "WAY better," "because I actually learn some things" "even though I have too much homework." She also has peers and real friends, which she did not at old school. Which would you choose?
