Great news! I emailed the teacher and it turns out that she thought I WANTED a ton of homework, or that DS was so into doing work that he would like it, and so gave poor DS this "special" homework packet that no one else got. OMG! I quickly disabused her of this notion and she was totally fine with that and agreed to send home 1 page a day of writing work, which will go along with his 3-4x a week math enrichment work. That is totally fine and manageable.

SO RELIEVED!! And she had nothing but good things to say about DS. In fact, she even said his handwriting was wonderful.

Wow! Communication certainly is important.