As if it couldn't get any worse.
Yesterday dd came home with a grade 3 EM homework workbook and the teacher said they need to do about 6 pages of it a week. The problem is they did EM last year and we already have a 3rd grade EM homework book more than half done from last year. I emailed the teacher asking if dd could just do the pages in the workbook from last year that she hasn't completed, in my mind it seems completely pointless to be repeating the homework from last year. The teacher is adamant that everybody is going to go through it as a group and correct it in class. She claimed dd had quite a few wrong answers in hers and she wants to make sure everybody knows the material. I just looked through the workbook from last year and dd RARELY missed a problem as a 2nd grader and now has to redo it as a 3rd grader.
So my next thought is just have dd just rush through and complete the entire workbook ahead of the assigned pages, however, looking through it it pains me to see problems such as 5+7 or write out the fact family numbers for 25,50, and 75 or make arrays for problems such as 6x4. This is just busy work that dd already knows, why should she waste her time doing this when she could be doing much more complex problems like simplifying fractions, adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions, working with square roots, multiplying large numbers together, working with decimals....
I'm so frustrated and really don't know what to do anymore about this. I wish I could homeschool.
