What I discovered was that teachers are notoriously poor estimators of how long it will actually take a kid to do something. They are, in theory, experts in their subject area and any work given would not be practice for them.
CAMom,
You are my hero. What an amazing idea.
Along the lines of "poor estimators," I emailed the DS's math teacher and mentioned he'd been spending two hours on homework. She wrote back that she'd estimated ~30 minutes!
My husband sat down to do the work. He estimated that the kid would need 1.5-2 hours to do the problems.
The teacher is going to dial down.
Thanks for all the input. I see value in homework, but also think that children shouldn't be working 10 hours a day. That's even a lot for an adult.
Val
