However, there are requirements that the teachers must meet with the students, and if the students are not given the work in that particular grade, the teacher cannot report correctly. If the student is not doing the addition homework because it's below his level, how can the teacher grade on whether or not he knows addition? Just because the parent says he can?
But if the child is turning in work done at home on multiplication and division, shouldn't the teacher be smart enough to figure out that he knows how to do addition and should be working on something else?
When DS started 2nd grade last year, he brought home what I call the "silly sheets" for homework. I threw those away and printed out multiplication and division for him to do instead. He took that in as homework, and next time I saw his teacher she said not to worry about the silly sheets, she just gives them to everyone out of habit, and she started giving him better homework. Problem solved. She knew what he should be doing, but "take one and pass them down" was giving him stuff he didn't have to do.
