Homework Poll

March 15, 2009
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Our district is asking us how much homework we give. I think they’ve had some parent complaints about the homework load. I used to scoff, and still do to a certain extent, at the complaints of “hours of homework devouring our family life.” But my son is a 4th grader in the district (his school is right down the street), and there are nights when I too question the amount of homework assigned. We do call my boy The Pokey Puppy because he does tend to take forever doing anything, but…

So I have a new polling widget I want to test, AND I want to see what other people are doing. So, here we go…and thanks.

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Mr. Coward has been teaching on the beautiful central coast of California since 1989.

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