"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM -0500 wrote: >Also, >the ones who ride the bus get home super late, which I do NOT think is ok. >Some will get home at 6 or 6:30. That's unacceptable to me.
Hi! Now that's interesting to me, because my school requires afternoon sports which run from 3:45-5:45 (our academic day runs from 7:55-3:30) and therefore the earliest a day student can expect to get home is 6;00. Some don't get home until more like 7:00. We try to adjust our homework accordingly so that they don't have to stay up too late, and can hopefully have some "be a kid" and/or family time as well. The boarding kids in the middle school have 75 minutes' worth of evening study hall (with a break in the middle), so we aim for about 75 minutes of take-home-work a night. We do annual homework surveys each fall to double-check that we are meeting the needs of that year's groups of kids both in terms of total quantity and in terms of distribution over the course of the week. Most families are pleased with the results. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
